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Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems

Part One: Life 125. To hang our head ostensibly

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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