BEHIND A SMILING FACE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2149, 17 April 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

BEHIND A SMILING FACE.

BT HAL BERTE.

Q«, laughter u a hollow mask that griefbowed hearts of t wear To coyer up their ashes and pains, and hide the seams of woe. There's many a man whose face would show a little world of care, But for the smiles he forces up that none but he may know. Aye, I have known them times and timei, with seeming merry hearts, Say witty things, and write them, too, with humor's choicest grace, "fret after all them merely played, a* acton do, but parts. And sought to hide an aching heart beff ' hind a smiling face. Y'ei he may wear a merry amile amid the giddy throng, That very funny man you know, who makes you laugh so loud, Whose jokes have smoothed away your cares and turned your tears to song ; But after all bis smiling face may cover up a cloud. If you could penetrate that heart which J seems to you «o gay, ' Perchance you there would find a grief 1 you would not think to trace. -Ah me, it «eems so very ttrange, and yet so true alvtray, That many in icbing heart is hid behind * a smiling face.

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