sceptre-reed

Updated: April 30, 2025

The large sceptre-reed; the fig-tree, lingering in barrenness when other trees are full of fruit; the locust-beans of the Caruba: for one suggestion of Greek idylls there is yet another, of far deeper, dearer power. But who can resist the influence of Greek ideas at the Cap S. Martin?

John Addington Symonds - Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series