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To hang our head-ostensibly

by Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

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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!




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