The Dirge of Cyprus

Ugh, cue the funeral dirge.

For one whole day and night... it sustained me on that soft and dirge-like main.

like a lullaby... or birds... or a funeral dirge to a death march...

Therefore our sometime sister... ...now our queen... ...th' imperial jointress of this warlike state... ...have we as 'twere with a defeated joy... ...with one auspicious and one dropping eye... ...with mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage... ...in equal scale weighing delight and dole... ...taken to wife.