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Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.

William Shakespeare. 1564–1616

131. Fairy Land v

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         5
Into something rich and strange. 
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: 
                        Ding-dong. 
  Hark! now I hear them— 
                Ding-dong, bell!  10