Quote#Nature
Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing-withholding and free
Quote bySidney Lanier · 1842–1881
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "The Marshes of Glynn" (1878)..
English (original)
Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing-withholding and free Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer yourselves to the sea! Tolerant plains, that suffer the sea and the rains and the sun, Ye spread and span like the catholic man who hath mightily won God out of knowledge and good out of infinite pain And sight out of blindness and purity out of a stain.
— Sidney Lanier
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