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Recorded Live at Swarthout Recital Hall
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS
lyrics
Paul Laurence Dunbar.
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!
credits
from Works, 2005-2010,
track released December 2, 2007
Sarah Tannehill, Soprano
Ellen Bottorff, Piano
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