But never either found another
To free the hollow heart from pining –
They stood aloof, the scars remaining,
Like cliffs which had been rent asunder;
A dreary see now flows between; –
But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder
Shall wholly do away, I ween,
The marks of that which once hath been.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, Christabel
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