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There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.

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Thomas Hood
Age: 45 †
Born: 1799
Born: May 23
Died: 1845
Died: May 3
Humorist
Poet
Writer
London
England
T. H.
Lake
Lakes
Double
Swim
Whenever
Thereon
Beauty
Swims
Swan
Swans

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The lily is all in white, like a saint, And so is no mate for me.
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I remember, I remember The roses, red and white, The violets, and the lily-cups, Those flowers made of light! The lilacs, where the robin built, And where my brother set The laburmum on his birthday,- The tree is living yet.
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We watch'd her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro.
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Sweet are the little brooks that run O'er pebbles glancing in the sun, Singing in soothing tones.
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