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The Wounded Heart

by Robert Herrick, 1648

Come bring your sampler, and with art
  Draw in’t a wounded heart
  And dropping here and there:
Not that I think that any dart
  Can make yours bleed a tear,
  Or pierce it anywhere;
Yet do it to this end: that I
        May by
      This secret see,
    Though you can make
That heart to bleed, yours ne’er will ache
      For me.

Published in Hesperides
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