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First Line: Somebody being a nobody
Last Line: Would you have called me a nobody?
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Variant Title(s): "somebody Being A Nobody"";
Subject(s): Fame; Reputation


Somebody being a nobody,
Thinking to look like a somebody,
Said he thought me a nobody:
Good little somebody-nobody,
Had you not known me a somebody,
Would you have called me a nobody?






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