Emily Dickinson

Heaven a physician?

They say that He can heal;

But medicine posthumous

Is unavailable.

Is Heaven an exchequer?30

They speak of what we owe;

But that negotiation

I’m not a party to.

IF I can stop one heart from breaking,

I shall not live in vain;

If I can ease one life the aching,

Or cool one pain,

Or help one fainting robin

Unto his nest again,

I shall not live in vain.

THE soul selects her own society,

Then shuts the door;

On her divine majority