Over the tops of the intervening forest flashes, as it were from the sky, the Ribbon Fall, long known, and poetically so, as " The Virgin's Tear Fall." Its course is marked by a deep recess in the sheer face of the rocks for fifteen hundred feet downward from the sky line. The Virgin's Tear must have been bitter to have eroded so deep a scar, probably, as one wit has remarked, because she was not yet a bride. But, a more charitable interpretation of the name is the fact that the source of supply of the Virgin's Tear fails quickly, and often, when you visit the valley later in the summer, it is over, as all maidens' tears should be. […]
From: Charles Quincy Turner, Yosemite Valley Through the Stereoscope, Underwood & Underwood, New York, 1902, p. 25.
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