Songs of Ariel

From “The Tempest,” Act I. Sc. 2. I. COME unto these yellow sands, And then take hands; Court’sied when you have, and kissed. (The wild waves whist!) Foot it featly here and there; And, sweet sprites, the burthen bear. Hark, hark! Burthen [dispersedly]—Bow-wow. The watch-dogs bark— Burthen [dispersedly]—Bow-wow. Hark, hark! I hear The strain of strutting chanticleer Cry Cock-a diddle-dow. II. 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: Burthen.—Ding-dong! Hark! now I hear them—ding, dong, bell! II. Act V. Sc. 1.Where the bee sucks, there suck I: In a cowslip’s bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry; On the bat’s back I do fly After summer merrily. Merrily, merrily, shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.