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William Shakespeare

FULL fathom five thy father lies;

    Of his bones are coral made;

Those are pearls that were his eyes;

    Nothing of him that doth fade,

But doth suffer a sea-change

Into something rich and strange.

Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:

                Ding-dong.

    Hark! now I hear them--

            Ding-dong, bell!

(from The Tempest)

Arthur Quiller-Couch, The Oxford Book of English

Verse, 1250- 1900 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1912) 180.