====== The Inner Life ======
== THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | SEPTEMBER 1937 ==
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==== “A MAN WITH A MASK” ====
A WONDERFUL man
\\ From a beautiful land
\\ Where things are just as they seem
\\ Took passage one day
\\ In a very queer way
\\ To a country made out of a dream.

Now in this new country
\\ He wore a strange guise
\\ As everyone else did, you see.
\\ And try as he would
\\ He never quite could
\\ Be just as he wanted to be.

For the people would meet
\\ As they passed on the street
\\ In this very queer land of the mask.
\\ They looked at him too,
\\ And yet never knew
\\ That he was a friend with a mask.

They looked at the mask
\\ But never did ask
\\ About the real man struggling within.
\\ For no one thought
\\ That the garment thus wrought
\\ Was the discolored garment of sin.

So the friends from above,
\\ United by love
\\ And the bonds of the one parenthood,
\\ For many a day
\\ Their ignorant way
\\ Passed on all unmindful of good.

There’s a beautiful land,
\\ O very real land,
\\ And it shines with a splendid light;
\\ Its a very dear land
\\ And a very near land,
\\ And it beckons back thru the night.

There no man weeps
\\ And no man sleeps
\\ The sleep of the dark unknown;
\\ Each plays his part
\\ With a gallant heart
\\ And all injustice long has flown.
\\ —Laura Collins.
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