1931


I’m Nobody

Composed by Ernst Bacon
"I'm Nobody" is currently published in the Ernst Bacon collection simply titled Songs From Emily Dickinson for Medium/High Voice.

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I’m Nobody
by Emily Dickinson

I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you — Nobody — Too?
Then there’s a pair of us!
Don’t tell! they’d advertise — you know!

How dreary — to be — Somebody!
How public — like a Frog —
To tell one’s name — the livelong June —
To an admiring Bog!

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