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Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924.

Part Five: The Single Hound

CXLI

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.