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There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.
Thomas Hood
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Thomas Hood
Age: 45 †
Born: 1799
Born: May 23
Died: 1845
Died: May 3
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London
England
T. H.
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She stood breast-high amid the corn Clasp'd by the golden light of morn, Like the sweetheart of the sun, Who many a glowing kiss had won.
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Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions Yet others of our most romantic schemes, Are something more than fictions.
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How bless'd the heart that has a friend. A sympathizing ear to lend.
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Experience enables me to depose to the comfort and blessing that literature can prove in seasons of sickness and sorrow.
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I love thee - I love thee, 'Tis all that I can say, It is my vision in the night, My dreaming in the day.
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