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“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.”
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- Source:
- Saturday Afternoon.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- caa65eba76e91c79dc4f6bb18fea5dbeb0a758f1be89bc35d37523c9673b8bf3
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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