Smile

There is a smile of love,

And there is a smile of deceit;

And there is a smile of smiles

In which these two smiles meet.

And there is a frown of hate,

And there is a frown of disdain;

And there is a frown of frowns

Which you strive to forget in vain,

For it sticks in the heart's deep core,

And it sticks in the deep backbone;

And no smile that ever was smiled,

But only one smiles alone

That betwixt the cradle and grave

It only once smiled can be;

But when it once is smiled

There's no end to misery.