Once in a theatre comic ‘tween acts
I pondered to see
On a column sculptured
Wide and comic
The grinning mask of comedy
And broad and wild in satyr-glee
The grinning face of comedy

Ah, said I, face merry and comic
There is happiness in thee
Few faces like thine
Wide-mouth’d and comic
Oh, grinning face of comedy
Boisterously wrinkled, ugly and free
The grinning mask of comedy

Worn, hysterical, mad, unfree
Woe-twisted face of comedy

Worn, hysterical, mad, unfree
Woe-twisted face of comedy

Worn, hysterical, mad, unfree
Woe-wisted face of comedy

Worn, hysterical, mad, unfree
Woe-wisted face of comedy
Twisted face of comedy
Twisted face