127 When the world is up for cheers like a curtain

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When the world is up for cheers like a curtain,

and prompters close their books at last;

when all our lines are said for certain,

and faces fall away like masks….

 

when, actors, stuffed with too many scenes,

we seek each other behind the screens,

then our hands go round, and in the sound

of God’s own laughter we are bound.