I'm Nobody. Who are you? | Emily Dickinson | How dreary to be somebody!

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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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Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete on gutenberg.org:
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12242/pg12242-images.html
Edited by two of her friends: MABEL LOOMIS TODD and T.W. HIGGINSON.
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE":
As is well documented, Emily Dickinson's poems were edited in these early editions by her friends, better to fit the conventions of the times. In particular, her dashes, often small enough to appear as dots, became commas and semi-colons.
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