A Quote by Algernon Charles Swinburne

The thorns he spares when the rose is taken; The rocks are left when he wastes the plain; The wind that wanders, the weeds wind-shaken, These remain.

Algernon Charles Swinburne : English poet & critic
Algernon Swinburne (1837 - 1909)
Source: A forsaken Garden.
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