Rudyard Kipling Quote

Smells are surer than sounds or sights
To make your heart-strings crack —
They start those awful voices o'nights
That whisper, "Old man, come back!"


The Five Nations (1903)


Smells are surer than sounds or sights To make your heart-strings crack — They start those awful voices o'nights That whisper, Old man, come back!

Smells are surer than sounds or sights To make your heart-strings crack — They start those awful voices o'nights That whisper, Old man, come back!

Smells are surer than sounds or sights To make your heart-strings crack — They start those awful voices o'nights That whisper, Old man, come back!

Smells are surer than sounds or sights To make your heart-strings crack — They start those awful voices o'nights That whisper, Old man, come back!