词汇 | full fathom five thy father lies |
词源 | full fathom five thy father lies . . . From a song that the “airy spirit” Ariel and Ferdinand sing in Shakespeare’s The Tempest (1611): 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. |
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