Silva coronat aquas, cingens latus omne; suisque Frondibus ut velo Phoebeos summovet ignes.
"Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Vol III."
John Symonds
They cannot, I think, with any propriety, be called, as they are by Mr. Ray, 'circa aquas versantes'; for with us, by day at least, they haunt only the most dry, open, upland fields and sheep walks, far removed from water.
"The-Natural-History-of-Selborne"
White, Gilbert