Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


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I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you — Nobody — too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Don't tell! They'd banish us — you know!

How dreary — to be — Somebody!
How public — like a Frog —
To tell your name — the livelong June —
To an admiring Bog!






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