The Mind
I took one draught of life,
From Further Poems of Emily Dickinson (1929)
The Mind
I took one draught of life,
I'll tell you what I paid,
Precisely an existence—
The market price, they said.
They weighed me, dust by dust,
They balanced film with film,
Then handed me my being's worth—
A single dram of Heaven.
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Dickinson, Emily. “I took one draught of life.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/522/.
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Dickinson, Emily. “I took one draught of life.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/522/.
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