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Funny -- to be a Century

By Emily DickinsonSource: Emily Dickinson - PoetryDB (Public Domain)55 words

Funny -- to be a Century --

And see the People -- going by --

I -- should die of the Oddity --

But then -- I'm not so staid -- as He --

He keeps His Secrets safely -- very --

Were He to tell -- extremely sorry

This Bashful Globe of Ours would be --

So dainty of Publicity --

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