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Non omnis moriar

The heart asks pleasure first,

by Emily Dickinson · Explore poems

  1. The heart asks pleasure first,
  2. And then, excuse from pain;
  3. And then, those little anodynes
  4. That deaden suffering;
  5.  
  6. And then, to go to sleep;
  7. And then, if it should be
  8. The will of its Inquisitor,
  9. The liberty to die.

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