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The Heart asks Pleasure first,
And then, Excuse from Pain;
And then, those little Anodyness
That deaden suffering;

And then, to go to sleep;
And then, if it should be
The will of its Inquisitor,
The liberty to die.

c. 1862

© Emily Dickinson
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