I'm Nobody! Who Are You?

Poems: Second Series (1891), c. 1861

I'm nobody! Who are you?Are you nobody, too?Then there's a pair of us—don't tell!They'd banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!How public, like a frogTo tell your name the livelong dayTo an admiring bog!

From Poems: Second Series (1891), via the English Wikisource transcription. The source capitalises the first word («I'M»); it was restored.

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