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Don’t trouble more to celebrate this natal day of mine
Quote byJulia Ward Howe · 1819–1910
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Verses read at a meeting of the Boston Authors' Club held in honor of her eighty-sixth birthday (May 27, 1905), in Thomas Wentworth Higginson, "Julia Ward Howe", The Outlook, vol. 85, no. 4 (January 26, 1907) p. 178.
English (original)
Don’t trouble more to celebrate this natal day of mine, But keep the grasp of fellowship which warms us more than wine. Let us thank the lavish hand that gives world beauty to our eyes, And bless the days that saw us young, and years that make us wise.
— Julia Ward Howe
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