“That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.”
Anthony Trollope (1815–1882) English novelist (1815-1882)
“While on the shop and street I gazed
My body of a sudden blazed;
And twenty minutes more or less
It seemed, so great my happiness,
That I was blessed and could bless.”
Source: The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933), Vacillation http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1751/, IV <br class="br">Context: My fiftieth year had come and gone,<br>I sat, a solitary man,<br>In a crowded London shop,<br>An open book and empty cup<br>On the marble table-top.<br>While on the shop and street I gazed<br>My body of a sudden blazed;<br>And twenty minutes more or less<br>It seemed, so great my happiness,<br>That I was blessed and could bless.
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