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

by Emily Dickinson

Just once! Oh, least request!Could Adamant refuseSo small a graceSo scanty put—Such agonizing terms?Would not a God of FlintBe conscious of a sighAs down His HeavenDropt, remote,"Just once! Sweet Deity?"^[1]

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