Hand in Hand/Hearts and Faces

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Hearts and Faces

CAN you judge a smile who is gay,
Nor once be misled by the token?
I know that I laughed aloud one day,
From a heart that was almost broken.

But my laughter rang false, do you say?
Or tears followed very soon after.
You are wrong for I wept not that day,
And my laugh was the merriest laughter.

That my grief was not deep, you maintain,
Since I found it so easy to cover;
But I tell you I writhed with the pain,
And one writhes not when anguish is over.

For my own part I scarcely believe
That sighing can only mean sadness;
And I wholly misdoubt, you perceive,
That laughter must always prove gladness.

Are you sure it is grief when a tear starts?
Can you trust smiles of mirth in all places?
If aught can be falser than human hearts,
It must surely be human faces!