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that relate to the ocean,
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From The Reader’s
Encyclopedia:
What things have we seen
Done at the Mermaid:
Heard words that have been
So nimble, and so full of subtile flame,
As if that everyone from whence they came
Had meant to put the whole wit in a jest.”
--Beaumont in “Lines to Ben Jonson”
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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.
William
Shakespeare, The Tempest
Quotation
suggested by Barbara
Paul
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the mermaids singing, each
to each.
I do not think
they will sing to me.
I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
When the wind blows the water white and black.
We have lingered
in the chambers of the
sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown."
--The
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
-- T. S. Eliot
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Eliot said he was inspired by this "Song" by John Donne:
"Go, and catch a
falling star,
Get with child a mandrake root,
Tell me, where all past years are,
Or who cleft the devil's foot,
Teach me to hear mermaids singing,
Or to keep off envy's stinging,
And find
What wind
Serves to advance an honest mind."
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More from Shakespeare
"...once I sat upon a promontory
And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back
Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath
That the rude sea grew civil at her song
And certain stars shot madly from their spheres
To hear the sea-maid's music?"
--A Midsummer
Night's Dream
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