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 What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
 The hearts bleed longest, and but heal to wear
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 What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
 The hearts bleed longest, and but heal to wear
  That which disfigures it. 
 And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? 
Then he shall answer, Those with read more 
 And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? 
Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house 
of my friends. 
 Thou hast wounded the spirit that loved thee
 And cherish'd thine image for years;
  Thou hast taught read more 
 Thou hast wounded the spirit that loved thee
 And cherish'd thine image for years;
  Thou hast taught me at last to forget thee,
   In secret, in silence, and tears. 
 The wound is for you, but the pain is for me.
 [Fr., La blessure est pour vous, la douleur read more 
 The wound is for you, but the pain is for me.
 [Fr., La blessure est pour vous, la douleur est pour moi.] 
 Safe in a ditch he bides,
 With twenty trenched gashes on his head,
  The least a death read more 
 Safe in a ditch he bides,
 With twenty trenched gashes on his head,
  The least a death to nature. 
 A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but 
wounds which are raw shudder at the touch read more 
 A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but 
wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands.
 [Lat., Tempore ducetur longo fortasse cicatrix;
  Horrent admotas vulnera cruda manus.] 
 I tell you that which you yourselves do know,
 Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths,
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 I tell you that which you yourselves do know,
 Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths,
  And bid them speak for me. 
What wound did ever heal but my degrees?
What wound did ever heal but my degrees?
 H' had got a hurt
 O' th' inside of a deadlier sort.  
 H' had got a hurt
 O' th' inside of a deadlier sort.