“On thy fair bosom, silver lake,
The wild swan spreads his snowy sail,
And round his breast the ripples break
As down he bears before the gale.”

To Seneca Lake, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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American geologis, poet, and surgeon 1795–1856

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