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H
06-30-2003, 10:46 AM
i am writing a book, and the topic and possibly the title of it will revolve around a poem from my childhood which i have searched for but cannot find! It's by Lord Alfred Tennyson and contains the words 'nobody' and 'somebody' regularly. This sounds weird but if you know it you'll understand..... please help!!

dosty_idiot
07-02-2003, 02:46 AM
the poem is "Epigrams 1868 -1874" -Tennyson

VI

Somebody being nobody,
Thinking to look like a somebody,
Said that he thought me a nobody,
Had you not known me a somebody,
Would you have called a nobaody?

It was written as a rebuttal to a sarcastic attack on one of his poems. I hope this helps