bosom-chords

Updated: May 2, 2025

"The heart knoweth its own sorrows, and a stranger intermeddleth not therewith." The repository of these "sorrows of the heart" is a kind of sanctum sanctorum: and'tis only a chosen friend, and that, too, at particular, sacred times, who dares enter into them: Heaven oft tears the bosom-chords That nature finest strung. You will excuse this quotation for the sake of the author.

Robert Burns - The Letters of Robert Burns