<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477948" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>We Wear the Mask</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We wear the mask that grins and lies,<br>It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,--<br>This debt we pay to human guile;<br>With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,<br>And mouth with myriad subtleties.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why should the world be overwise,<br>In counting all our tears and sighs?<br>Nay, let them only see us, while<br>We wear the mask.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries<br>To thee from tortured souls arise.<br>We sing, but oh the clay is vile<br>Beneath our feet, and long the mile;<br>But let the world dream otherwise,<br>We wear the mask!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Laurence+Dunbar">Paul Laurence Dunbar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477948" data-title="We Wear the Mask de Paul Laurence Dunbar" data-description="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 tear..."></div> </div> </div>

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