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The heart might find less care;
But words, like summer birds, depart,
And leave but empty air.
Lines 1-2: "If words could satisfy the heart, The heart might find less care ;"
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Meaning: If words could truly make the heart happy , then the heart would have less worry and sadness .
Lines 3-4: "But words, like summer birds , depart , And leave but empty air ."
Important words
Meaning: But words are like summer birds – they fly away and leave nothing behind , only empty air.
"If words could satisfy the heart, The heart might find less care;"
(If words could truly make the heart happy, then the heart would have less worry and sadness.)
"But words, like summer birds, depart, And leave but empty air."
(But words are like summer birds – they fly away and leave nothing behind, only empty air.)
Overall meaning: The poet says that words alone cannot make the heart happy . If they could, the heart would have less worry. But words are like summer birds that fly away and leave nothing behind, only empty air.
