<div>We wear the mask that grins and lies,</div>
<div>It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—</div>
<div>This debt we pay to human guile;</div>
<div>With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,</div>
<div>And mouth with myriad subtleties.</div>
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<div>Why should the world be over-wise,</div>
<div>In counting all our tears and sighs?</div>
<div>Nay, let them only see us, while</div>
<div> We wear the mask.</div>
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<div>We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries</div>
<div>To thee from tortured souls arise.</div>
<div>We sing, but oh the clay is vile</div>
<div>Beneath our feet, and long the mile;</div>
<div>But let the world dream otherwise,</div>
<div> We wear the mask!</div>
<div>-Paul Lawrence Dunbar</div>

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