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A better swimmer you could scarce see ever,
He could, perhaps, have pass'd the Hellespont,
As once (a feat on which ourselves we prided)
Leander, Mr. Ekenhead, and I did.

George Gordon Noel Byron

George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824), British poet. Don Juan. . .

The Poems of Byron. Paul E. More, ed. (1933) Houghton Mifflin.

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