Home ⇒ 📌Emily Dickinson ⇒ The healed Heart shows its shallow scar
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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