
 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 Comed
 I
 «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 Comed»