"I want" - it pleaded - All its life  
 
"I want"-it pleaded-All its life-
I want-was chief it said
When Skill entreated it-the last-
And when so newly dead-

I could not deem it late-to hear
That single-steadfast sigh-
The lips had placed as with a "Please"
Toward Eternity- 
 
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)