Re: What does "mirror blue" mean?

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:28:58 +0100, sprocket <jas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jakob Højlev Jørgensen wrote:
I'm from Denmark and have heard the expression "mirror blue" in a song.
I can't find it in any dictionary. Google gives 91.600 results when I
search for "mirror blue" (most of them refers to an album by Richard
Thompson from 1994).

It's not a common English expression, and I don't know the song it's
from;

I think he may be alluding to the Tennyson poem _The Lady Of Shalott_.
Which is the only reference to "mirror blue" I can think of.

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