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1788–1824

ON A CORNELIAN HEART WHICH WAS BROKEN.

George Gordon Byron

Ill-fated Heart! and can it be, That thou shouldst thus be rent in twain? Have years of care for thine and thee Alike been all employed in vain?

Yet precious seems each shattered part, And every fragment dearer grown, Since he who wears thee feels thou art A fitter emblem of his own.

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