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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