We lost the patriarch a year ago. A small remembrance:
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:
…
Hark! now I hear them — Ding-dong, bell.
William Shakespeare – from “The Tempest”