The line
is an allusion to Ophelia's farewell in Hamlet, act IV, scene v.172) Good night, ladies, good night, sweet ladies, good night, good night.
This has meaning to The Waste Land as Ophelia died by drowning while holding flowers and, as we have seen, the flower holding hyacinth girl and the drowned Phoenician Sailor are one.
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