Further Poems of Emily Dickinson/Just once! Oh, least request!

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Just once! Oh, least request!
Could Adamant refuse
So small a grace
So scanty put—
Such agonizing terms?
Would not a God of Flint
Be conscious of a sigh
As down His Heaven
Dropt, remote,
"Just once! Sweet Deity?"[1]

  1. ↑ Published on page 256 of the "Life and Letters."
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