“There's a double beauty whenever a swan
Swims on a lake with her double thereon.”
Thomas Hood (1799–1845) British writer
Her Honeymoon; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century
“Let beeves and home-bred kine partake
The sweets of Burn-mill meadow;
The swan on still St. Mary's Lake
Float double, swan and shadow!”
Yarrow Unvisited.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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The swan on still St. Mary's Lake
Float double…" by William Wordsworth?
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