By some sly trick of dew and sun.

Pilgrim. A poet.

Shepherd. Nay, a simple swain

That tends his flocks on yonder plain

Naught else I swear by book and bell.

But she that passed you marked her well

Was she not smooth as any be

That dwells here—in Arcady?

Pilgrim. Her skin was the satin bark of birches.

Shepherd. Light or dark?