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To hang our head ostensibly

by Emily Dickinson, 1896

To hang our head ostensibly,
  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!

Published in Poems by Emily Dickinson: Third Series
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