Emily Dickinson – CXXV – 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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