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The Heart asks Pleasure -- first --

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The Heart asks Pleasure -- first -- by Emily Dickinson

 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 privilege to die --

Form: Lyric

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