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What a cheery adieu they wave to the friends who come down to wish them "good-speed!" After a voyage more or less prolonged the same ship drifts in slowly shoreward, over the harbor-bar, under the calm of the solemn sunset. Even the deepening twilight can not disguise the evidences of a terrible "sea-change." Not a trace of paint or gilding remains on the wave-worn, shattered timbers.
But as all these physical elements of construction suffer a sea-change on passing into the service of Poseidon, so again the landward phrases are metamorphosed by their contact with the main. But no one set of them is allowed exclusive predominance. For the ocean is the only true, grand, federative commonwealth which has never owned a single master.
The best known and most often quoted example is that of the Blancpied family, part of whom have become Whitefoots, while the others, living on the coast, have suffered a marvellous sea-change, the name reappearing as "Blumpy."
But if Globigerinae, and Terebratula caput-serpentis and Beryx, not to mention other forms of animals and of plants, thus bridge over the interval between the present and the Mesozoic periods, is it possible that the majority of other living things underwent a "sea-change into something new and strange" all at once?
Such is the transmutation of time, which can colour with poetry things much more prosaic than life in ancient Venice. Nothing of us that doth fade But doth, suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Poets and seers feel the richness and strangeness of the life that is passing under their very eyes.
I confess to the fancy that there is some subtle influence working this sea-change in us, which the guidebooks, in their enumeration of the delights of the region, do not touch, and which maybe reaches back beyond the Christian era.
After supper, which Shelley would take upon awaking at ten, the two friends would talk and read together until two o'clock. In the Protestant cemetery at Rome one can find in an obscure place a plain stone bearing record of Percy Bysshe Shelley, and these lines from Shakspere's Tempest: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange.
"No more in heaven than you would be, if the Almighty was pleased to cut you off in his wrath." "Where then, Mr Hardsett?" inquired Robinson. "Surely not in " "I know I know," cried Price, who again lifted up his head, and, with a vacant laugh, commenced singing "Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea nymphs hourly ring his knell!
Frothingham's long hands hung down and he looked as if she had proposed a jaunt to Mars. "My physician has ordered a sea-change," he mumbled doubtfully, "my daughter Antoinette I really there is nothing in all my experience " "Olivia!" Mrs. Hastings in tears was superintending the search for both side-combs. "Aunt Dora," said Olivia, "you're not going to fail me now.
There our race seems to be in earnest in nothing. People sometimes work, but as if without any aim; they suffer, and you fancy them playing at wretchedness. The Church of St. Mark, standing so solidly, with a thousand years under the feet of its innumerable pillars, is not in the least gray with time no grayer than a Greek lyric. "All has suffered a sea-change Into something rich and strange,"
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