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I sent you, Vivie a newspaper with the announcement of my marriage Dj'ever get it?" Vivie: "Never. But I was undergoing a sea-change of my own, just then, which I will tell you all about presently." Frank: "Well then. I came back to England on a hurried visit. You remember, Praddy? But you were away in Italy and I couldn't find Vivie anywhere.
Obviously there is no great sea-change that takes place at the Stroke Of Midnight on the date of the person's 21st birthday; no magic wand is waved over his scalp to convert him in a moment of time from a puling infant to a mature adult. The growth of child to adult is as gradual as the increase of his stature, which varies from one child to the next.
Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Tempest. Sunday morning found Anna in a different frame of mind from that of the evening before. Uncle Clement had been very ill all night, and the house was to be kept as quiet as possible.
Everything in it suffers a sea-change; everything is set to the music of the winds and the waves. We find ourselves among a people with whom the sea is all, and the land only an appendage to the sea, a place to dry fish, and mend nets, and haul up boats, and caulk ships.
"Full fathom deep thy father lies; Of his bones are corals made; Those are pearls which were his eyes; Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange; Fairies hourly ring his knell, Hark! I hear them. Ding dong bell." The Tempest. Yes, it is over; and the great Armada is vanquished.
It is the authentic fury, the divine madness; and we pass out of ourselves, and "suffer a sea-change into something rich and strange."
The hours that had elapsed since her father's death had wrought in him a "sea-change." He had gained nobility, almost beauty. She wondered with a desolate self-criticism whether during all those years she had been to blame and not he. Perhaps he had wished for sympathy and intimacy and she had repulsed him. His little possessions here and there about the house reproached her.
"'tis Death is dead, not he," for in the west wind you may hear his song, and in the tender night his rare mysterious music; when the skylark sings it is as it were his melody, and in the clouds you may find something of the refreshment of his spirit. "Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange." Constable, 1903, vol. ii. p. 123.
It is thought worth while to note that there were fresh eggs for breakfast, fresh pork for dinner, fresh chicken for supper; that a porpoise had been captured, and that his carcass yielded "three gallons of oil as good as sperm oil"; that no ship had been seen "no sail from day to day"; that they were in the latitude of Panama; that it was squally or not squally, as the case might be; that on one occasion they captured "four barrels of oil," the flotsam of some ill-fated whaler, and that it all proved "very exciting"; that a dolphin was captured, and that he died in splendor, passing through the whole gamut of the rainbow that the words of tradition might be fulfilled; that the hens had suffered no sea-change, but had contributed from a dozen to two dozen eggs per day.
"Nothing of him doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange." Poems of Shelley, selected and arranged for use in schools, by E. E. Speight. JOHN KEATS, the poet whose death Shelley mourned in Adonais, was by a few years the younger, having been born in 1795.
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