"“All the radiance of April in Italy lay gathered together at her feet, The sun poured in on her, The sea lay asleep in it, hardly stirring, Across the bay the lovely mountains, exquisitely different in colour, were asleep too in the light; and underneath her window, at the bottom of the flower-starred gray slope from which the wall of the castle rose up, was a great cypress, cutting rough the delicate blues and violets and rose-colours of the mountains and the sea like a great black sword.” ― Elizabeth von Arnim, (The Enchanted April', Seven Treasures Publications, 2011, p40)"

— The Enchanted April the Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim (Page 40)