the-wisps

Updated: May 24, 2025

And, what was strangest, neither did our mirth seem to disturb the propriety of the solemn woods; although the hobgoblins of the old wilderness and the will-of- the-wisps that glimmered in the marshy places might have come trooping to share our table-talk and have added their shrill laughter to our merriment.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Old Manse (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")