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Wear Mask Grins Lies Hides Cheeks Shades Eyes

Front 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.
Back Paul Laurence Dunbar, “We Wear the Mask”

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