The healed Heart shows its shallow scar

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The healed Heart shows its shallow scar by Emily Dickinson

 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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