Re: What does "mirror blue" mean?

"Andy Leighton" <andyl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> skrev i meddelelsen 
news:slrng06tmo.lof.andyl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:28:58 +0100, sprocket <jas@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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.

That was a good reference. I've read the poem, and it seems to make sense
in 
the context of the song.

Thank you very much.

Jakob