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Fair Friendship Raised His Placid Mask

by Oscar Fay Adams

Oscar Fay Adams

Fair Friendship raised his placid mask and showed
Beneath, not brows where calm Content should reign,
Nor smiles wherein all-perfect Joy abode,
But Discord's face, distort with many a pain!




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