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The heart once broken is a heart no more, / And is absolved from all a heart must be; All that it signed or chartered heretofore
Is cancelled now, the bankrupt heart is free; So much of duty as you may require
Of shards and dust, this and no more of pain, / This and no more of hope, remorse, desire, / The heart once broken need support again.
How simple 'tis, and what a little sound
It makes in breaking, let the world attest:
It struggles, and it fails; the world goes round, / And the moon follows it. Heart in my breast, / 'Tis half a year now since you broke in two;
The world's forgotten well, if the world knew.