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Emily Dickinson · Poems

Poem 220 of 446 · Second Series: Nature

Gossip

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The leaves, like women, interchange Sagacious confidence; Somewhat of nods, and somewhat of Portentous inference,

The parties in both cases Enjoining secrecy, -- Inviolable compact To notoriety.

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