because mermaids make everything better

Arthur Rackham, Midsummer Night's Dream

lHans Christian Andersen, Little Mermaid

Frank Cheyne Papé

Victor Nizovtsev, Mermaid

John William Waterhouse, A Mermaid

Warwick Goble

William Holbrook Beard

Victor Bauer
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A Man Young And Old:  III.  The Mermaid

A mermaid found a swimming lad,

Picked him for her own,

Pressed her body to his body,

Laughed; and plunging down

Forgot in cruel happiness

That even lovers drown.

--William Butler Yeats