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LIFE by EMILY DICKINSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: I ASKED NO OTHER THING
Last Line: "THAT WE CAN SHOW TO-DAY?"
Subject(s): LIFE;
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?"



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