The heart which cannot know another

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The heart which cannot know another
by Emily Brontë

As rendered in Brontë Poems: Selections from the poetry of Charlotte, Emily, Anne and Branwell Brontë (1915)

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THE heart which cannot know another,
Which will not learn to sympathize,
In whom the voice of friend, or brother,
Unheard, unechoed, sleeps or dies;
Between whom, and the world around,
Can stretch no life-uniting ties.