How public—like a frog

I'm nobody! Who are you?

Are you nobody, too?

Then there's a pair of us—don't tell!

They'd banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!

How public, like a frog

To tell your name the livelong day

To an admiring bog!

—Emily Dickinson

How about an admiring blog?—Elizabeth Periale

George Albert Boulenger, The tailless batrachians of Europe, 1897-98, Pl. XVI. Rana esculenta. Var. ridibunda, Illustration of 2 frogs; one land, one in the water

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