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Shakespeare's Hamlet (Act V. Scene VII)
Queen Gertrude describes Ophelia's death:
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"There is a willow grows aslant a brook, 
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; 
There with fantastic garlands did she come, 
Of crow-flowers, daisies and long purples 

That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, 
But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them: 
There on the pendant boughs her coronet weeds 
Clambering to hang, an envious silver broke; 

When down her weedy trophies and herself 
Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide; 
And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up: 
Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes: 

As one incapable of her own distress, 
Or like a creature native and indued 
Unto that element: but long it could not be 
Till that her garments, heavy with their drink, 
Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay 
To muddy death."
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Prosperine by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82)

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