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THE HEALED HEART SHOWS ITS SHALLOW STAR by EMILY DICKINSON

Poet Analysis

Last Line: THAN SUCH FIDELITY
Subject(s): HEALING; HEARTS; FIDELITY;

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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