full fathom five

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 toll his knell--ding, dong!.
Hark! Now I hear them! Ding, dong bell!

Full fathoms 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.

William Shakespeare: The Tempest Act I, Scene II, ll. 400-406.

Sung by Ariel to Ferdinand; Eliot identifies the drowned sailor Phlebas of The Waste Land with the father of Ferdinand.