faerylands forlorn
“The curtain had been lifted, and we had had a glimpse into a magic world of romance and pictured poetry, peopled with ghosts of ‘ladies dead and lovely knights,’ – a twilight world of dark mysterious woodlands, haunted streams, meads of deep green starred with burning flowers, veiled in a dim and mystic light, and stained with low-toned crimson and gold, as if indeed one had gazed through the glass of
‘Magic casements opening on the foam
Of perilous seas in faerylands forlorn.’”
— Walter Crane, “An Artist’s Reminiscences”, 1907.
