When I Read the Book

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1. When I read the book, the biography famous,
2. And is this then (said I) what the author calls a man’s life?
3. And so will some one when I am dead and gone write my life?
4. (As if any man really knew aught of my life,
5. Why even I myself I often think know little or nothing of my real life,
6. Only a few hints, a few diffused faint clews and indirections
7. I seek for my own use to trace out here.)