"The heart asks pleasure first"

IX.

The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain ; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering ; And then, to go to sleep ; And then, if it should be The will of its Inquisitor, The liberty to die.

 

from Poems by Emily Dickinson (1890)
"A wounded deer leaps highest"	In a Library

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