John Milton Shade Quotations

Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.

Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?

Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades High over-arch'd imbower.