Friday, March 12, 2010

waste and empty is the sea

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'You gave me hyacinths first a year ago;  35
'They called me the hyacinth girl.' 
—Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden, 
Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not 
Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither 
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing,  40
Looking into the heart of light, the silence. 
OD' UND LEER DAS MEER.

(T.S.Eliot, The Waste Land)

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