Elizabeth Barrett Browning - A False Step lyrics

I. Sweet, thou hast trod on a heart. Pa**; there's a world full of men; And women as fair as thou art Must do such things now and then. II. Thou only hast stepped unaware,— Malice, not one can impute; And why should a heart have been there In the way of a fair woman's foot? III. It was not a stone that could trip, Nor was it a thorn that could rend: Put up thy proud under-lip! 'T was merely the heart of a friend. IV. And yet peradventure one day Thou, sitting alone at the gla**, Remarking the bloom gone away, Where the smile in its dimplement was, V. And seeking around thee in vain From hundreds who flattered before, Such a word as “Oh, not in the main Do I hold thee less precious, but more!”... VI. Thou'lt sigh, very like, on thy part, “Of all I have known or can know, I wish I had only that Heart I trod upon ages ago!”