Poems: Second Series (Dickinson)/Gossip

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XXXII.

GOSSIP.


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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