“From the bank and from the river
He flashed into the crystal mirror,
"Tirra lirra," by the river
Sang Sir Lancelot.”

—  Alfred, Lord Tennyson , The Lady of Shalott

Pt. III, st. 4
The Lady of Shalott (1832)

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