But ... I wonder what day of the week,
I wonder what month of the year!”
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Poems (1882.)
Lil´inau, a woman wooed by a phantom that lived in her father’s pines. At night-fall the phantom whispered love, and won the fair Lilinau, who followed his green waving plume through the forest, but never more was seen.—American-Indian Legend.
Told she the tale of the fair Lilinau, who was wooed by a phantom
That through the pines o’er her father’s lodge, in the hush of the twilight,
Breathed like the evening wind, and whispered love to the maiden;
Till she followed his green and waving plume thro’ the forest,
And never more returned, nor was seen again by her people.
Longfellow, Evangeline, ii. 4 (1849).