Victorian. A pretty girl: and in her tender eyes,
Just that soft shade of green we sometimes see
In evening skies."
Longfellow's Spanish Student, Act II. Sc. 3.
Mr. Longfellow adds in a note:
"The Spaniards, with good reason, consider this colour of the eye as beautiful, and celebrate it in a song; as, for example, in the well-known Villancico:
'Ay ojuelos verdes,
Ay los mis ojuelos,
Ay hagan los cielos
Que de mi te acuerdes!