I'm nobody! Who are you?

by Emily Dickinson · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880

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LIFE.



POEMS.


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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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