這是 Poem Hunter 的每日一詩
常常發現編者的慧眼巧手很巧合搭配我的朋友需要

這一首剛剛才由電郵送到
謹轉給正被摸頭的超級小ㄋㄠ--露西

同是天涯淪落人啦!


We Wear the Mask

Paul Laurence Dunbar

http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/PoemOfTheDay.asp?day=8&month=5&year=2006



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 from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!