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* '''Lea:''' river in England | * '''Lea:''' river in England | ||
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* '''lea:''' meadow | * '''lea:''' meadow | ||
* '''lay down''' | * '''lay down''' | ||
Latest revision as of 13:33, 24 August 2012
- Lea: river in England
- Swan: river in England
- lea: meadow
- lay down
- down: rolling grassland
- down: soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds
- Leda and the Swan: In Greek mythology, the god Zeus seduced, or raped, Queen Leda in the form of a swan. According to later Greek mythology, Leda bore Helen and Polydeuces, children of Zeus, while at the same time bearing Castor and Clytemnestra, children of her husband Tyndareus, the King of Sparta.
- "Leda and the Swan": one of the best-known poems by Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1924)
