Pearls that were his eyes

A quotation from Shakespeare's The Tempest. Ferdinand of Naples is shipwrecked in a storm, and his father Alonso is presumed drowned - another Death by Water. The spirit Ariel sings: 

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:

                                             Ding-dong.

Hark! now I hear them,—ding-dong, bell.

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