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I'm nobody! Who are you?

by Emily Dickinson, 1891

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!

Published in Poems by Emily Dickinson: Second Series
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