Masks
By Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Black tragedy lets slip her grim disguise
And shows you laughing lips and roguish eyes;
But when, unmasked, gay Comedy appears,
'T is ten to one you find the girl in tears.
Source Book
Flower And Thorn: Later Poems
by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Copyright 1876
Published by James R. Osgood And Company, Boston
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