Emily Dickinson

10 December 1830 – 15 May 1886 / Amherst / Massachusetts

To Hang Our Head—Ostensibly

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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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