Ill-fated Heart! And can it be, <br />That thou should'st thus be rent in vain? <br />Have years of care for thine and thee <br />Alike been all employ'd in vain? <br /> <br />Yet precious seems each shatter'd part <br />And every fragment dearer grown <br />Since he who wears thee feels thou art <br />A fitter emblem of his own. <br /> <br />March 16, 1812<br /><br />George Gordon Byron<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/on-a-cornelian-heart-which-was-broken/
