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James Whitcomb Riley - We Are Not Always Glad When We SmileJames Whitcomb Riley - We Are Not Always Glad When We Smile
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We are not always glad when we smile:     Though we wear a fair face and are gay,         And the world we deceive         May not ever believe     We could laugh in a happier way.-- Yet, down in the deeps of the soul,     Ofttimes, with our faces aglow,         There`s an ache and a moan         That we know of alone,     And as only the hopeless may know. We are not always glad when we smile,--     For the heart, in a tempest of pain,         May live in the guise         Of a smile in the eyes     As a rainbow may live in the rain; And the stormiest night of our woe     May hang out a radiant star         Whose light in the sky         Of despair is a lie     As black as the thunder-clouds are. We are not always glad when we smile!--     But the conscience is quick to record,         All the sorrow and sin         We are hiding within     Is plain in the sight of the Lord: And ever, O ever, till pride     And evasion shall cease to defile         The sacred recess         Of the soul, we confess     We are not always glad when we smile.
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