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We Wear The Mask

By Paul Laurence Dunbar

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!

Disponível em: http://www.english-for-students.com. Acesso em: 12 jul. 2021.


Paul Laurence Dunbar foi um dos primeiros grandes escritores negros a serem reconhecidos nos Estados Unidos e na Inglaterra. No poema We Wear The Mask, Dunbar evidencia a necessidade humana de

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