Quote#Nature
Virginal shy lights
Quote bySidney Lanier · 1842–1881
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "The Marshes of Glynn" (1878)..
English (original)
Virginal shy lights, Wrought of the leaves to allure to the whisper of vows, When lovers pace timidly down through the green colonnades Of the dim sweet woods, of the dear dark woods, Of the heavenly woods and glades, That run to the radiant marginal sand-beach within The wide sea-marshes of Glynn.
— Sidney Lanier
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