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Grade 8 Humanities: National Poetry Month

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I’m Nobody! Who are You? 

by

Emily Dickinson

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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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