The healed Heart shows its shallow scar

by Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) English

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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