“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
“The peerless cup afloat
Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph
Swims bearing high above her head.”
Part 4.
Paracelsus (1835)
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