With many readers brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable mines of gold under ground. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

With many readers brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable mines of gold under ground.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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