Clinton Dangerfield discounts in this poem the stoicism of the age that
refuses to reveal its griefs and evils:
Sad hearts are out of date. We laugh and jest,
When we take wounds as well as when we strike.
One can not tell the conquerors on Love’s field--
Victors and vanquished look so much alike!
But sometimes when the mask unguarded falls
One sees the actor’s self behind the part,
And half holds those the wiser who, of old,
Washed, unashamed, with tears a broken heart. (Text.)
--_The Delineator._
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