A Very Short Song Once, when I was young and true, Someone left me sad- Broke my brittle heart in two; And that is very — Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker
A Very Short Song Once, when I was young and true, Someone left me sad- Broke my brittle heart in two; And that is very — Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker
A Very Short Song Once, when I was young and true, Someone left me sad- Broke my brittle heart in two; And that is very — Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker
A Very Short Song Once, when I was young and true, Someone left me sad- Broke my brittle heart in two; And that is very — Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker
A Very Short Song Once, when I was young and true, Someone left me sad- Broke my brittle heart in two; And that is very — Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker
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A Very Short Song Once, when I was young and true, Someone left me sad- Broke my brittle heart in two; And that is very bad. Love is for unlucky folk, Love is but a curse. Once there was a heart I broke; And that, I think, is worse.

— Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker
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