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Emily Dickinson · Poems

Poem 116 of 446 · Second Series: Life

Poem 1

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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 day To an admiring bog!

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