We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man.
Richard Le GallienneAbout author
- Author's profession: Poet
- Nationality: english
- Born: January 20, 1866
- Died: September 15, 1947
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