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“I cried to dream again.”

Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices
That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming,
The clouds methought would open and show riches
Ready to drop upon me that, when I waked,
I cried to dream again.

 

—  Caliban, in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Act III, Scene II

 

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“Full fathom five thy father lies,” read by Eric Robert Nolan.

From William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.”  For Emily. 🙂

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.

 

“Brave New World”

O, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!

How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in’t!

— Miranda, “The Tempest,” by William Shakespeare