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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

That, in so dense a fuzz,

You, too, take cobweb attitudes

Upon a plane of gauze!