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The single hound : poems of a lifetime

Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)

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[CXXXVIII. The healed Heart shows its shallow scar]

The healed Heart shows its shallow scar
With confidential moan,
Not mended by Mortality
Are fabrics truly torn.
To go its convalescent way
So shameless is to see,
More genuine were Perfidy
Than such Fidelity.
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