Quote#Friendship
And oh! I shall find how, day by day
Quote byWinthrop Mackworth Praed · 1802–1839
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "Twenty-eight and Twenty-nine" in The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed (published 1860) p. 212..
English (original)
And oh! I shall find how, day by day, All thoughts and things look older; How the laugh of pleasure grows less gay, And the heart of friendship colder.
— Winthrop Mackworth Praed
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