Continuing National Poetry day, one of my favourites: T.S Eliot - The Waste Land IV. Death by Water (1922) Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead, Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep seas swell And the profit and loss. A current under sea Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell He passed the stages of his age and youth Entering the whirlpool. Gentile or Jew O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
Posted on: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 13:00:37 +0000
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