The Healed Heart Shows Its Shallow Scar

Emily Dickinson

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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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