The healed Heart shows its shallow scar

by Emily Dickinson · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880

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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