"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
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