Come unto These Yellow Sands
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[[Image:Richard Dadd - Come unto These Yellow Sands.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Come unto These Yellow Sands]]'' ([[1842]]) by [[Richard Dadd]]. Images of nude and semi-nude [[fairies]] dancing in rings became popular during the Victorian era.]] | [[Image:Richard Dadd - Come unto These Yellow Sands.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Come unto These Yellow Sands]]'' ([[1842]]) by [[Richard Dadd]]. Images of nude and semi-nude [[fairies]] dancing in rings became popular during the Victorian era.]] | ||
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- | ''[[Come unto These Yellow Sands]]'', is a 1842 painting by [[Richard Dadd]] and a 1985 [[radio play]] based on [[Richard Dadd]]'s life, written by [[Angela Carter]]. | + | ''[[Come unto These Yellow Sands]]'', is a [[1842]] painting by [[Richard Dadd]] and a 1985 [[radio play]] based on [[Richard Dadd]]'s life, written by [[Angela Carter]]. |
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+ | It is a reference to [[Ariel's Song]] from [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''[[The Tempest]]'' | ||
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+ | Come unto these yellow sands,<br /> | ||
+ | And then take hands:<br /> | ||
+ | Curtsied when you have, and kiss'd<br /> | ||
+ | The wild waves whist,<br /> | ||
+ | Foot it featly here and there;<br /> | ||
+ | And, sweet sprites, the burthen bear.<br /> | ||
+ | Hark, hark!<br /> | ||
+ | Bow-wow.<br /> | ||
+ | The watch-dogs bark.<br /> | ||
+ | Bow-wow.<br /> | ||
+ | Hark, hark! I hear<br /> | ||
+ | The strain of strutting chanticleer<br /> | ||
+ | Cry, Cock-a-diddle-dow. | ||
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+ | Full fathom five thy father lies;<br /> | ||
+ | Of his bones are coral made;<br /> | ||
+ | Those are pearls that were his eyes:<br /> | ||
+ | Nothing of him that doth fade,<br /> | ||
+ | But doth suffer a sea-change<br /> | ||
+ | Into something rich and strange.<br /> | ||
+ | Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:<br /> | ||
+ | Ding-dong.<br /> | ||
+ | Hark! now I hear them—Ding-dong, bell. | ||
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Come unto These Yellow Sands, is a 1842 painting by Richard Dadd and a 1985 radio play based on Richard Dadd's life, written by Angela Carter.
It is a reference to Ariel's Song from William Shakespeare's The Tempest
Come unto these yellow sands,
And then take hands:
Curtsied when you have, and kiss'd
The wild waves whist,
Foot it featly here and there;
And, sweet sprites, the burthen bear.
Hark, hark!
Bow-wow.
The watch-dogs bark.
Bow-wow.
Hark, hark! I hear
The strain of strutting chanticleer
Cry, Cock-a-diddle-dow.
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.