In Other Words/The Fool

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The Fool

The Fool did on his motley And sighed, as who should say:“If all but me be sobbing, Why then must I be gay?
“If all the world be weeping, And very life seem wrong,Why is it mine to fashion A whimsy and a song?
“Pray, why must I be merry?” —But came no answering word.For that the world was weeping, And none the Fool had heard.

APRIL 19, 1912.

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