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A Meditation on Ariel’s Song


I Full fadom 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. This is the second stanza of Ariel’s […]

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