Quote#Happiness
For it stirs the blood in an old man’s heart
Quote byNathaniel Parker Willis · 1806–1867
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "Saturday Afternoon", in Poems of Early and After Years (Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1848), p. 120..
English (original)
For it stirs the blood in an old man’s heart, And makes his pulses fly, To catch the thrill of a happy voice, And the light of a pleasant eye.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
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