The intelligible forms of ancient poets,

The fair humanities of old religion,

The power, the beauty, and the majesty

That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain,

Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring,

Or chasms and watery depths,—all these have vanished;

They live no longer in the faith of reason.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834): Wallenstein. Part i. Act ii. Sc. 4. (Translated from Schiller.)

The flowers of the forest are a' wide awae.

Jane Elliott (1727-1805): The Flowers of the Forest.

I met a fool i' the forest,

A motley fool.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.

This is the forest primeval.

Henry W Longfellow (1807-1882): Evangeline. Part i.