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WHAT AM I AFTER ALL.

WHAT am I after all but a child, pleas'd with the sound of my own
name? repeating it over and over;
I stand apart to hear—it never tires me.

To you your name also;
Did you think there was nothing but two or three pronunciations
in the sound of your name?

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