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How dreary to...

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How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog.

Source: 1861; Poems, Second Series, 1891.
-- Emily Dickinson, (Dec 10 1830-1886), US poet; She was a reclusive stylist who combined spare lyricism with unorthodox diction.


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