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The Foolish Heart
BE STILL, heart, cease those measured strokes;Lie quiet in your hollow bed;This moving frame is but a hoaxTo make you think you are not dead."
Thus spake I to my body's slave,With beats still to be answerèd;Poor foolish heart that needs a graveTo prove to it that it is dead.


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