I'm NOBODY! Who are you?
Are you--Nobody--Too?
Then there's a pari of us?
Don't tell! they'd advertise--you know!
How dreary-to be -Somebody!
How public--like a Frog--
To tell one's name--the livelong June--
To an admiring Bog!
From: Judge Tenderly of Me; the Poems of Emily Dickinson
Hallmark Editions, 1968
(A treasured little book, gifted to me by my friend, Nancy Jenson with a lovely inscription)
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