If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking

 

By Emily Dickinson, (1830–1886)

 

 

If I can stop one heart from breaking,

I shall not live in vain;

If I can ease one life the aching,

Or cool one pain,

Or help one fainting robin

Unto his nest again,

I shall not live in vain.

 

 

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"If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking", by Emily Dickinson

 

"If", by Rudyard Kipling

 

Star of the Heart

 

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