Quote#Happiness
The happy children! full of frank surprise
Quote byEdmund Gosse · 1849–1928
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: On Viol and Flute (1873), "Lying in the Grass", st. 15.
English (original)
The happy children! full of frank surprise, And sudden whims and innocent ecstasies; What godhead sparkles from their liquid eyes!
— Edmund Gosse
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