lichen-stains

Updated: May 29, 2025

The garden rises at the end into broken elevated ground showing the native rock through its grassy sides. A row of tall old cypresses crowns the ridge their fluted trunks gray with lichen-stains, and their deep green spires of foliage forming harp-strings on which the evening winds discourse solemn music, as if the spirit of the poet haunted them still.

Hugh Macmillan - Roman Mosaics: Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood