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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
Humorist
Poet
Writer
London
England
T. H.
Lakes
Double
Swim
Whenever
Thereon
Beauty
Swims
Swan
Swans
Lake

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Father of rosy day, No more thy clouds of incense rise But waking flow'rs, At morning hours, Give out their sweets to meet thee in the skies.
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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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O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head.
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And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast, And been bow'd to the earth by its fury To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass'd Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury - Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime, The regrets of remembrance to cozen, And having obtained a New Trial of Time, Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen.
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My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.
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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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Oh! God! That bread should be so dear, and flesh and blood so cheap!
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While the steeples are loud in their joy, To the tune of the bells' ring-a-ding, Let us chime in a peal, one and all, For we all should be able to sing Hullah baloo.
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Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim!
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I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence, for no lonely bird would sing Into his hollow ear from woods forlorn, Nor lowly hedge nor solitary thorn- Shaking his languid locks all dewy bright With tangled gossamer that fell by night, Pearling his coronet of golden corn.
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Bells are musics laughter.
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For my part, getting up seems not so easy By half as lying.
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So mayst thou live, dear! many years, In all the bliss that life endears
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Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died.
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