125. “To hang our head ostensibly.” Part One: Life. Dickinson, Emily. 1924. Complete Poems

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Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924.

Part One: Life

CXXV

TO hang our head ostensibly,
And subsequent to find
That such was not the posture
Of our immortal mind,

Affords the sly presumption	5
That, in so dense a fuzz,
You, too, take cobweb attitudes
Upon a plane of gauze!