Emily Dickinson - T'is So Much Joy lyrics

'T is so much joy! 'T is so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so This side the victory! Life is but life, and d**h but d**h! Bliss is but bliss, and breath but breath! And if, indeed, I fail At least to know the worst is sweet Defeat means nothing but defeat No drearier can prevail! And if I gain,—oh, gun at sea Oh, bells that in the steeples be At first repeat it slow! For heaven is a different thing Conjectured, and waked sudden in And might o'erwhelm me so!