An ear can break a human heart As quickly as a spear, We wish the ear …

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An ear can break a human heart As quickly as a spear, We wish the ear had not a heart So dangerously near. ✨ Emily Dickinson, James Reeves (1959). Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson, p.101, Heinemann
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An ear can break a human heart As quickly as a spear, We wish the ear had not a heart So dangerously near. ✨ Emily Dickinson, James Reeves (1959). Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson, p.101, Heinemann

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