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Pearl diver collecting shells from the beds of Torres Strait, Queensland / Frank Hurley

from National Library of Australia

• Michael Donovan said:

  The Frank Hurley of Shackleton's expedition?

• Bella Venezia said:

  I love this picture, used it at my site www.stillwaters.at and I colored it - hope you like it?!

• spelio said:

  Michael Donovan YES! It reminds me of this poem from school.. "Full Fathom Five" is the second stanza of "Ariel's song",[1] better known than the first, and often presented alone. It implicitly addresses Ferdinand, who with his father has just gone through a shipwreck in which the father supposedly drowned. It is the origin of the identically worded catchphrase, which means "at a depth of five fathoms [of water]", and thus, in most evocations, drowned and lost as the father is. 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. see.. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel%27s_Song