wanderer-feeling

Updated: May 7, 2025

For there is in England, and there always was, mixed with the needful things that feed or shelter the race, the wanderer-feeling for romantic causes that runs deep and strange through the other thoughts, as the Gulf Stream runs through the sea. Sometimes generations of John Plowman's family would go by and no high romantic cause would come to sate that feeling.

Baron Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany - Tales of War