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Emily Dickinson · Poems

Poem 220 of 446 · Second Series: Nature

Gossip

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The leaves, like women, interchange
Sagacious confidence;
Somewhat of nods, and somewhat of
Portentous inference,

The parties in both cases
Enjoining secrecy, --
Inviolable compact
To notoriety.

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