To hang our head ostensibly

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

      And subsequent to find

That such was not the posture

      Of our immortal mind,


Affords the sly presumption

      That, in so dense a fuzz,

You, too, take cobweb attitudes

      Upon a plane of gauze!

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