"...and the whole bay spread before them and Mrs.Ramsey could not help exclaiming, 'Oh, how beautiful!' For the great plateful of blue water was before her; the hoary Lighthouse, distant, austere, in the midst; and on the right , as far as the eye could see, fading and falling, in soft low pleats, the green sand dunes with the wild flowing grasses on them, which always seemed to be running away into some moon country, uninhabited of men.
That was the view, she said, stopping, growing greyer-eyed, that her husband loved."
Virginia Woolf To The Lighthouse Penguin 2000 p17
Godrevy Lighthouse from the beach at Gwithian.
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