BEHIND A SMILING FACE.
Ob, laughter is a hollow mask that griefbowed hearts oft wear To cover up their aches and pains, and hido the scams of woe. There's many a man whoso face would shew a littlo world of care, But for the smiles ho forces up that none but he may know. Aye, I have known them times and times, wi(h seeming merry hearts, Say witty things, and write them, 100, with humour's choicest grace, Yet after all they merely played, as actors do, but parts', And sought to hide an aching heart behind a smiling face. If you could penetrate thai heait which seems to you so gay, Perchance you there would find a grief you would not tlnuk to truce. All me, it seems so very strange, and yet so true alwuy, Th.it m-.ny an aching heait is hid behind a smiling face.
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 270, 6 June 1888, Page 2
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147BEHIND A SMILING FACE. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 270, 6 June 1888, Page 2
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