Be Not Sad

James JoyceJames Joyce

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Be not sad because all men
Prefer a lying clamour before you:
Sweetheart, be at peace again -- -
Can they dishonour you? They are sadder than all tears;
Their lives ascend as a continual sigh.
Proudly answer to their tears:
As they deny, deny.
James Joyce
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James Joyce

1882 - 1941/Male/IrishA novelist, short story writer, and poet, James Augustine Aloysius Joyce contributed to the modernist avant-garde.

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