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Emily Dickinson (1830–86).  Complete Poems.  1924.

Part One: Life

XLVII

IS Heaven a physician?
  They say that He can heal;
But medicine posthumous
  Is unavailable.
  
Is Heaven an exchequer?        5
  They speak of what we owe;
But that negotiation
  I ’m not a party to.

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