“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!”

—  William Wordsworth

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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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English Romantic poet 1770–1850

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