“Clear and cool, clear and cool,
By laughing shallow, and dreaming pool.”

Song I, st. 1.
Water Babies http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/wtrbs10h.htm (1863)

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English clergyman, historian and novelist 1819–1875

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