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The Children's Garland from the Best Poets

XXXVII

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A SEA DIRGE

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: Hark! now I hear them,— Ding, dong, bell.

W. Shakespeare

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