“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.”

—  William Shakespeare , The Tempest

Ariel, Act I, scene ii.
The Tempest (1611)

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