marsh-lotus

Updated: July 24, 2025

Here is the marsh-lotus which he himself has plucked and watered with salt tears the marsh-lotus from the fresh waters. And here is a nettle: what does its leaf say? What did he think on plucking it on preserving it? Here are lilies of the valley from the woodland solitudes; here are honeysuckle leaves from the village ale-house flower-pot; and here the bare, sharp blade of grass.

H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen - Pictures of Sweden