Carolina QuotesYe 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 Connected to the Carolinas
Source
"The Marshes of Glynn" (1878).
- year
- 1878
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“Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing-withholding an…” Sidney Lanier. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-81BCE5B9B9. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/81bce5b9b9
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