"I asked no other thing"

XII.

I asked no other thing. No other was denied. I offered Being for it ; The mighty merchant smiled. Brazil ?  He twirled a button, Without a glance my way : "But, madam, is there nothing else That we can show to-day ?"

 

from Poems by Emily Dickinson (1890)
"Much madness is divinest sense"	Exclusion

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