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A Sea Change
A Sea Change
A Sea Change : Phrases
Meaning:
A radical, and apparently mystical, change.
Example:
Origin:
From Shakespeare's The Tempest, 1610:
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