'I'm Nobody! Who are you?' (#288) by Emily Dickinson

Poetry

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Emily Dickinson

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 one’s name — the livelong June — To an admiring Bog!


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