I healed the wound, and each morning
It sang its old sweet strain,
But the bird with the broken pinion
Never soars so high again.

"The Bird with the Broken Wing", quoted in Ralph Davol, "Hezekiah Butterworth: A Sketch of His Personality", The New England Magazine, vol. 33, no. 5 (January 1906) p. 516. The same version is attributed to Irma B. Matthews in The American Messenger, vol. 69, no. 5 (May 1911) p. 86. A different version, "The Broken Pinion", is attributed to Butterworth in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) p. 127, no. 15

Each loss has its compensation; There is healing for every pain; But the bird with the broken pinion Never soars so high again.