If sometimes I say that flowers smile---And if I should say that rivers sing, it's not because I think there are smiles in flowers and songs in the rivers'flowing ... It's so I can help misguided men feel the truly real existence of flowers and rivers.

Since I write for them to read me,
I sometimes stoop
To the stupidity of their senses...
It isn't right,
But I excuse myself,
Because I've only taken on this odious role,
An interpreter of 
Nature,
Because there are men who don't grasp its
Language,
Which is no language at all.