oat-and-barley-gilded

Updated: May 20, 2025

Now, the great land-lake, on whose bosom floated in the sunlight a thousand islands oat-and-barley-gilded, and rimmed with the green and purple verdure of the turnip and rutabaga, was all set a-glow by a luminous flood from the opening clouds above.

Elihu Burritt - A Walk from London to John O'Groat's