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Is Heaven a physician?

by Emily Dickinson, 1891

Is Heaven a physician?
   They say that He can heal;
But medicine posthumous
   Is unavailable.

  Is Heaven an exchequer?
   They speak of what we owe;
But that negotiation
   I 'm not a party to.

Published in Poems by Emily Dickinson: Second Series
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