Thomas Bailey Aldrich

1836-1907

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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:

Flower And Thorn: Later Poems
Copyright 1876
James R. Osgood And Company, Boston
 

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