(英詩) We Wear the Mask / Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)

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아래의 詩는 한국어판 <미국민중사2권> 제17장 162쪽에 등장한다. 

그러나 내가 갖고 있는 원서 <A People's History of the United States> 

(Abridged teaching edition)에는 등장하지 않는다.

그래서 인터넷을 찾아 보았더니, 다음과 같이 나온다.

We Wear the Mask / Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)

    

    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 over-wise, 
    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!