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we wear the mask
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We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,--
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.

Why should the world be overwise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.

We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!

Paul Laurence Dunbar
we, wear, the, mask, by, paul, laurence, dunbar
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hamzeh
Comment by hamzeh May. 10,2008
+1
hamzeh
Comment by hamzeh May. 10,2008
+1
prosperity
Comment by prosperity May. 09,2008
+1 very nice
atulsharma
Comment by atulsharma May. 09,2008
+1
well written......
gentledang
Comment by gentledang May. 08,2008
Absolutely true... like it + for you
dloadflix
Comment by dloadflix May. 08,2008
nice +1
AudraFay
Comment by AudraFay May. 08,2008
A*
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