誇りと喜び hokori to yorokobi Pride and Joy

誇り hokori is pride, the feeling of honor in someone; と is and; 喜び yorokobi is gladness, cited from a sutra of about 850. English has frozen pride and joy into an idiom for the person one is proudest of; Japanese has not, so the line reads as two feelings.

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