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This dirty -- little -- Heart

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This dirty -- little -- Heart by Emily Dickinson

 This dirty -- little -- Heart
Is freely mine.
I won it with a Bun --
A Freckled shrine --

But eligibly fair
To him who sees
The Visage of the Soul
And not the knees.

Form: Free verse

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