| 02br 01center 02br 00A00PRIL00 is the cruellest month, breeding02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Memory and desire, stirring02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Dull roots with spring rain.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Winter kept us warm, covering02td | 01td01a01i00 502i02a02td | 02tr
| 00Earth in forgetful snow, feeding02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00A little life with dried tubers.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten,02td | 01td01a01i00 1002i02a02td | 02tr
| 00And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Bin gar keine Russin, stamm' aus Litauen, echt deutsch.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00And when we were children, staying at the archduke's,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00My cousin's, he took me out on a sled,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00And I was frightened. He said, Marie,02td | 01td01a01i00 1502i02a02td | 02tr
| 00Marie, hold on tight. And down we went.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00In the mountains, there you feel free.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 02td | 02tr|
| 00What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,02td | 01td01a01i00 2002i02a02td | 02tr
| 00You cannot say, or guess, for you know only02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00And the dry stone no sound of water. Only02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00There is shadow under this red rock,02td | 01td01a01i00 2502i02a02td | 02tr
| 00(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00And I will show you something different from either02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Your shadow at morning striding behind you02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00I will show you fear in a handful of dust.02td | 01td01a01i00 3002i02a02td | 02tr
| 00 01i00Frisch weht der Wind02i02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 01i00Der Heimat zu.02i02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 01i00Mein Irisch Kind,02i02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 01i00Wo weilest du?02i02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00'You gave me hyacinths first a year ago;02td | 01td01a01i00 3502i02a02td | 02tr
| 00'They called me the hyacinth girl.'02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00—Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Living nor dead, and I knew nothing,02td | 01td01a01i00 4002i02a02td | 02tr
| 00Looking into the heart of light, the silence.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 01i00Od' und leer das Meer.02i02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 02td | 02tr|
| 00Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Had a bad cold, nevertheless02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Is known to be the wisest woman in Europe,02td | 01td01a01i00 4502i02a02td | 02tr
| 00With a wicked pack of cards. Here, said she,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Is your card, the drowned Phoenician Sailor,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00(Those are pearls that were his eyes. Look!)02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Here is Belladonna, the Lady of the Rocks,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00The lady of situations.02td | 01td01a01i00 5002i02a02td | 02tr
| 00Here is the man with three staves, and here the Wheel,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00And here is the one-eyed merchant, and this card,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Which is blank, is something he carries on his back,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Which I am forbidden to see. I do not find02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00The Hanged Man. Fear death by water.02td | 01td01a01i00 5502i02a02td | 02tr
| 00I see crowds of people, walking round in a ring.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Thank you. If you see dear Mrs. Equitone,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Tell her I bring the horoscope myself:02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00One must be so careful these days.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 02td | 02tr|
| 00Unreal City,02td | 01td01a01i00 6002i02a02td | 02tr
| 00Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00I had not thought death had undone so many.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00And each man fixed his eyes before his feet.02td | 01td01a01i00 6502i02a02td | 02tr
| 00Flowed up the hill and down King William Street,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00There I saw one I knew, and stopped him, crying 'Stetson!02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00'You who were with me in the ships at Mylae!02td | 01td01a01i00 7002i02a02td | 02tr
| 00'That corpse you planted last year in your garden,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00'Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00'Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed?02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00'Oh keep the Dog far hence, that's friend to men,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00'Or with his nails he'll dig it up again!02td | 01td01a01i00 7502i02a02td | 02tr
| 00'You! hypocrite lecteur!—mon semblable,—mon frère!'02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 02td | 02tr|
| 02br 01center 02br 00T00HE00 Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Glowed on the marble, where the glass02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Held up by standards wrought with fruited vines02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00From which a golden Cupidon peeped out02td | 01td01a01i00 8002i02a02td | 02tr
| 00(Another hid his eyes behind his wing)02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Doubled the flames of sevenbranched candelabra02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Reflecting light upon the table as02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00The glitter of her jewels rose to meet it,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00From satin cases poured in rich profusion;02td | 01td01a01i00 8502i02a02td | 02tr
| 00In vials of ivory and coloured glass02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Unstoppered, lurked her strange synthetic perfumes,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Unguent, powdered, or liquid—troubled, confused02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00And drowned the sense in odours; stirred by the air02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00That freshened from the window, these ascended02td | 01td01a01i00 9002i02a02td | 02tr
| 00In fattening the prolonged candle-flames,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Flung their smoke into the laquearia,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Stirring the pattern on the coffered ceiling.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Huge sea-wood fed with copper02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Burned green and orange, framed by the coloured stone,02td | 01td01a01i00 9502i02a02td | 02tr
| 00In which sad light a carvèd dolphin swam.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Above the antique mantel was displayed02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00As though a window gave upon the sylvan scene02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00The change of Philomel, by the barbarous king02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00So rudely forced; yet there the nightingale02td | 01td01a01i00 10002i02a02td | 02tr
| 00Filled all the desert with inviolable voice02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00And still she cried, and still the world pursues,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00'Jug Jug' to dirty ears.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00And other withered stumps of time02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Were told upon the walls; staring forms02td | 01td01a01i00 10502i02a02td | 02tr
| 00Leaned out, leaning, hushing the room enclosed.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Footsteps shuffled on the stair.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Under the firelight, under the brush, her hair02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Spread out in fiery points02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Glowed into words, then would be savagely still.02td | 01td01a01i00 11002i02a02td | 02tr
| 00 02td | 02tr|
| 00'My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What?02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00'I never know what you are thinking. Think.'02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 02td | 02tr|
| 00I think we are in rats' alley02td | 01td01a01i00 11502i02a02td | 02tr
| 00Where the dead men lost their bones.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 02td | 02tr|
| 00'What is that noise?'02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 The wind under the door.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00'What is that noise now? What is the wind doing?'02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 Nothing again nothing.02td | 01td01a01i00 12002i02a02td | 02tr
| 00 'Do02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00'You know nothing? Do you see nothing? Do you remember02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00'Nothing?'02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 I remember02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Those are pearls that were his eyes.02td | 01td01a01i00 12502i02a02td | 02tr
| 00'Are you alive, or not? Is there nothing in your head?'02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 But02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag—02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00It's so elegant02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00So intelligent02td | 01td01a01i00 13002i02a02td | 02tr
| 00'What shall I do now? What shall I do?'02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00'I shall rush out as I am, and walk the street02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00'With my hair down, so. What shall we do to-morrow?02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00'What shall we ever do?'02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 The hot water at ten.02td | 01td01a01i00 13502i02a02td | 02tr
| 00And if it rains, a closed car at four.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00And we shall play a game of chess,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Pressing lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 02td | 02tr|
| 00When Lil's husband got demobbed, I said—02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00I didn't mince my words, I said to her myself,02td | 01td01a01i00 14002i02a02td | 02tr
| 00H00URRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Now Albert's coming back, make yourself a bit smart.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00He'll want to know what you done with that money he gave you02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00To get yourself some teeth. He did, I was there.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00You have them all out, Lil, and get a nice set,02td | 01td01a01i00 14502i02a02td | 02tr
| 00He said, I swear, I can't bear to look at you.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00And no more can't I, I said, and think of poor Albert,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00He's been in the army four years, he wants a good time,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00And if you don't give it him, there's others will, I said.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Oh is there, she said. Something o' that, I said.02td | 01td01a01i00 15002i02a02td | 02tr
| 00Then I'll know who to thank, she said, and give me a straight look.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00H00URRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00If you don't like it you can get on with it, I said.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Others can pick and choose if you can't.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00But if Albert makes off, it won't be for lack of telling.02td | 01td01a01i00 15502i02a02td | 02tr
| 00You ought to be ashamed, I said, to look so antique.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00(And her only thirty-one.)02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00I can't help it, she said, pulling a long face,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00It's them pills I took, to bring it off, she said.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00(She's had five already, and nearly died of young George.)02td | 01td01a01i00 16002i02a02td | 02tr
| 00The chemist said it would be alright, but I've never been the same.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00You 01i00are02i00 a proper fool, I said.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Well, if Albert won't leave you alone, there it is, I said,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00What you get married for if you don't want children?02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00H00URRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME02td | 01td01a01i00 16502i02a02td | 02tr
| 00Well, that Sunday Albert was home, they had a hot gammon,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00And they asked me in to dinner, to get the beauty of it hot—02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00H00URRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00H00URRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Goonight Bill. Goonight Lou. Goonight May. Goonight.02td | 01td01a01i00 17002i02a02td | 02tr
| 00Ta ta. Goonight. Goonight.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Good night, ladies, good night, sweet ladies, good night, good night.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 02td | 02tr|
| 02br 01center 02br 00T00HE00 river's tent is broken: the last fingers of leaf02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Clutch and sink into the wet bank. The wind02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Crosses the brown land, unheard. The nymphs are departed.02td | 01td01a01i00 17502i02a02td | 02tr
| 00Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00The river bears no empty bottles, sandwich papers,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Silk handkerchiefs, cardboard boxes, cigarette ends02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Or other testimony of summer nights. The nymphs are departed.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00And their friends, the loitering heirs of city directors;02td | 01td01a01i00 18002i02a02td | 02tr
| 00Departed, have left no addresses.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00By the waters of Leman I sat down and wept...02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Sweet Thames, run softly till I end my song,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Sweet Thames, run softly, for I speak not loud or long.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00But at my back in a cold blast I hear02td | 01td01a01i00 18502i02a02td | 02tr
| 00The rattle of the bones, and chuckle spread from ear to ear.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 02td | 02tr|
| 00A rat crept softly through the vegetation02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Dragging its slimy belly on the bank02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00While I was fishing in the dull canal02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00On a winter evening round behind the gashouse02td | 01td01a01i00 19002i02a02td | 02tr
| 00Musing upon the king my brother's wreck02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00And on the king my father's death before him.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00White bodies naked on the low damp ground02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00And bones cast in a little low dry garret,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Rattled by the rat's foot only, year to year.02td | 01td01a01i00 19502i02a02td | 02tr
| 00But at my back from time to time I hear02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00The sound of horns and motors, which shall bring02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the spring.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00O the moon shone bright on Mrs. Porter02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00And on her daughter02td | 01td01a01i00 20002i02a02td | 02tr
| 00They wash their feet in soda water02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 01i00Et, O ces voix d'enfants, chantant dans la coupole!02i02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 02td | 02tr|
| 00Twit twit twit02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Jug jug jug jug jug jug02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00So rudely forc'd.02td | 01td01a01i00 20502i02a02td | 02tr
| 00Tereu02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 02td | 02tr|
| 00Unreal City02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Under the brown fog of a winter noon02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Mr. Eugenides, the Smyrna merchant02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Unshaven, with a pocket full of currants02td | 01td01a01i00 21002i02a02td | 02tr
| 00C.i.f. London: documents at sight,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Asked me in demotic French02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00To luncheon at the Cannon Street Hotel02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Followed by a weekend at the Metropole.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 02td | 02tr|
| 00At the violet hour, when the eyes and back02td | 01td01a01i00 21502i02a02td | 02tr
| 00Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Like a taxi throbbing waiting,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Old man with wrinkled female breasts, can see02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00At the violet hour, the evening hour that strives02td | 01td01a01i00 22002i02a02td | 02tr
| 00Homeward, and brings the sailor home from sea,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00The typist home at teatime, clears her breakfast, lights02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Her stove, and lays out food in tins.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Out of the window perilously spread02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Her drying combinations touched by the sun's last rays,02td | 01td01a01i00 22502i02a02td | 02tr
| 00On the divan are piled (at night her bed)02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Stockings, slippers, camisoles, and stays.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Perceived the scene, and foretold the rest—02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00I too awaited the expected guest.02td | 01td01a01i00 23002i02a02td | 02tr
| 00He, the young man carbuncular, arrives,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00A small house agent's clerk, with one bold stare,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00One of the low on whom assurance sits02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00As a silk hat on a Bradford millionaire.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00The time is now propitious, as he guesses,02td | 01td01a01i00 23502i02a02td | 02tr
| 00The meal is ended, she is bored and tired,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Endeavours to engage her in caresses02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Which still are unreproved, if undesired.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Flushed and decided, he assaults at once;02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Exploring hands encounter no defence;02td | 01td01a01i00 24002i02a02td | 02tr
| 00His vanity requires no response,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00And makes a welcome of indifference.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00(And I Tiresias have foresuffered all02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Enacted on this same divan or bed;02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00I who have sat by Thebes below the wall02td | 01td01a01i00 24502i02a02td | 02tr
| 00And walked among the lowest of the dead.)02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Bestows on final patronising kiss,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00And gropes his way, finding the stairs unlit...02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 02td | 02tr|
| 00She turns and looks a moment in the glass,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Hardly aware of her departed lover;02td | 01td01a01i00 25002i02a02td | 02tr
| 00Her brain allows one half-formed thought to pass:02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00'Well now that's done: and I'm glad it's over.'02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00When lovely woman stoops to folly and02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Paces about her room again, alone,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00She smoothes her hair with automatic hand,02td | 01td01a01i00 25502i02a02td | 02tr
| 00And puts a record on the gramophone.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 02td | 02tr|
| 00'This music crept by me upon the waters'02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00And along the Strand, up Queen Victoria Street.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00O City city, I can sometimes hear02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Beside a public bar in Lower Thames Street,02td | 01td01a01i00 26002i02a02td | 02tr
| 00The pleasant whining of a mandoline02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00And a clatter and a chatter from within02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Where fishmen lounge at noon: where the walls02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Of Magnus Martyr hold02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Inexplicable splendour of Ionian white and gold.02td | 01td01a01i00 26502i02a02td | 02tr
| 00 02td | 02tr|
| 00 The river sweats02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 Oil and tar02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 The barges drift02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 With the turning tide02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 Red sails02td | 01td01a01i00 27002i02a02td | 02tr
| 00 Wide02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 To leeward, swing on the heavy spar.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 The barges wash02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 Drifting logs02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 Down Greenwich reach02td | 01td01a01i00 27502i02a02td | 02tr
| 00 Past the Isle of Dogs.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 Weialala leia02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 Wallala leialala02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 02td | 02tr|
| 00 Elizabeth and Leicester02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 Beating oars02td | 01td01a01i00 28002i02a02td | 02tr
| 00 The stern was formed02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 A gilded shell02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 Red and gold02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 The brisk swell02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 Rippled both shores02td | 01td01a01i00 28502i02a02td | 02tr
| 00 Southwest wind02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 Carried down stream02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 The peal of bells02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 White towers02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 Weialala leia02td | 01td01a01i00 29002i02a02td | 02tr
| 00 Wallala leialala02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 02td | 02tr|
| 00'Trams and dusty trees.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Highbury bore me. Richmond and Kew02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Undid me. By Richmond I raised my knees02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Supine on the floor of a narrow canoe.'02td | 01td01a01i00 29502i02a02td | 02tr
| 00'My feet are at Moorgate, and my heart02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Under my feet. After the event02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00He wept. He promised "a new start".02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00I made no comment. What should I resent?'02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00'On Margate Sands.02td | 01td01a01i00 30002i02a02td | 02tr
| 00I can connect02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Nothing with nothing.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00The broken fingernails of dirty hands.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00My people humble people who expect02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Nothing.'02td | 01td01a01i00 30502i02a02td | 02tr
| 00 la la02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 02td | 02tr|
| 00To Carthage then I came02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 02td | 02tr|
| 00Burning burning burning burning02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00O Lord Thou pluckest me out02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00O Lord Thou pluckest02td | 01td01a01i00 31002i02a02td | 02tr
| 00 02td | 02tr|
| 00burning02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 02td | 02tr|
| 02br 01center 02br 00P00HLEBAS00 the Phoenician, a fortnight dead,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep seas swell02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00And the profit and loss.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 A current under sea02td | 01td01a01i00 31502i02a02td | 02tr
| 00Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00He passed the stages of his age and youth02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Entering the whirlpool.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 Gentile or Jew02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,02td | 01td01a01i00 32002i02a02td | 02tr
| 00Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 02td | 02tr|
| 02br 01center 02br 00A00FTER00 the torchlight red on sweaty faces02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00After the frosty silence in the gardens02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00After the agony in stony places02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00The shouting and the crying02td | 01td01a01i00 32502i02a02td | 02tr
| 00Prison and place and reverberation02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Of thunder of spring over distant mountains02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00He who was living is now dead02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00We who were living are now dying02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00With a little patience02td | 01td01a01i00 33002i02a02td | 02tr
| 00 02td | 02tr|
| 00Here is no water but only rock02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Rock and no water and the sandy road02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00The road winding above among the mountains02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Which are mountains of rock without water02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00If there were water we should stop and drink02td | 01td01a01i00 33502i02a02td | 02tr
| 00Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Sweat is dry and feet are in the sand02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00If there were only water amongst the rock02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Dead mountain mouth of carious teeth that cannot spit02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Here one can neither stand nor lie nor sit02td | 01td01a01i00 34002i02a02td | 02tr
| 00There is not even silence in the mountains02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00But dry sterile thunder without rain02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00There is not even solitude in the mountains02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00But red sullen faces sneer and snarl02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00From doors of mudcracked houses02br 00 If there were water02td | 01td01a01i00 34502i02a02td | 02tr
| 00 And no rock02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 If there were rock02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 And also water02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 And water02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 A spring02td | 01td01a01i00 35002i02a02td | 02tr
| 00 A pool among the rock02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 If there were the sound of water only02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 Not the cicada02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 And dry grass singing02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 But sound of water over a rock02td | 01td01a01i00 35502i02a02td | 02tr
| 00 Where the hermit-thrush sings in the pine trees02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 Drip drop drip drop drop drop drop02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 But there is no water02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 02td | 02tr|
| 00Who is the third who walks always beside you?02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00When I count, there are only you and I together02td | 01td01a01i00 36002i02a02td | 02tr
| 00But when I look ahead up the white road02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00There is always another one walking beside you02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00I do not know whether a man or a woman02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00—But who is that on the other side of you?02td | 01td01a01i00 36502i02a02td | 02tr
| 00 02td | 02tr|
| 00What is that sound high in the air02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Murmur of maternal lamentation02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Who are those hooded hordes swarming02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Over endless plains, stumbling in cracked earth02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Ringed by the flat horizon only02td | 01td01a01i00 37002i02a02td | 02tr
| 00What is the city over the mountains02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Falling towers02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Jerusalem Athens Alexandria02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Vienna London02td | 01td01a01i00 37502i02a02td | 02tr
| 00Unreal02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 02td | 02tr|
| 00A woman drew her long black hair out tight02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00And fiddled whisper music on those strings02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00And bats with baby faces in the violet light02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Whistled, and beat their wings02td | 01td01a01i00 38002i02a02td | 02tr
| 00And crawled head downward down a blackened wall02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00And upside down in air were towers02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Tolling reminiscent bells, that kept the hours02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 02td | 02tr|
| 00In this decayed hole among the mountains02td | 01td01a01i00 38502i02a02td | 02tr
| 00In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Over the tumbled graves, about the chapel02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00There is the empty chapel, only the wind's home.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00It has no windows, and the door swings,02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Dry bones can harm no one.02td | 01td01a01i00 39002i02a02td | 02tr
| 00Only a cock stood on the rooftree02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Co co rico co co rico02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00In a flash of lightning. Then a damp gust02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Bringing rain02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 02td | 02tr|
| 00Ganga was sunken, and the limp leaves02td | 01td01a01i00 39502i02a02td | 02tr
| 00Waited for rain, while the black clouds02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Gathered far distant, over Himavant.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00The jungle crouched, humped in silence.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Then spoke the thunder02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00D 00A02td | 01td01a01i00 40002i02a02td | 02tr
| 01i00Datta:02i00 what have we given?02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00My friend, blood shaking my heart02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00The awful daring of a moment's surrender02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Which an age of prudence can never retract02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00By this, and this only, we have existed02td | 01td01a01i00 40502i02a02td | 02tr
| 00Which is not to be found in our obituaries02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Or in memories draped by the beneficent spider02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Or under seals broken by the lean solicitor02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00In our empty rooms02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00D 00A02td | 01td01a01i00 41002i02a02td | 02tr
| 01i00Dayadhvam:02i00 I have heard the key02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Turn in the door once and turn once only02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00We think of the key, each in his prison02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Only at nightfall, aetherial rumours02td | 01td01a01i00 41502i02a02td | 02tr
| 00Revive for a moment a broken Coriolanus02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00D 00A02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 01i00Damyata:02i00 The boat responded02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Gaily, to the hand expert with sail and oar02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00The sea was calm, your heart would have responded02td | 01td01a01i00 42002i02a02td | 02tr
| 00Gaily, when invited, beating obedient02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00To controlling hands02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 02td | 02tr|
| 00 I sat upon the shore02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Fishing, with the arid plain behind me02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Shall I at least set my lands in order?02td | 01td01a01i00 42502i02a02td | 02tr
| 00 02td | 02tr|
| 00London Bridge is falling down falling down falling down02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 02td | 02tr|
| 01i00Poi s'ascose nel foco che gli affina02i02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 01i00Quando fiam ceu chelidon02i00—O swallow swallow02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 01i00Le Prince d'Aquitaine à la tour abolie02i02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00These fragments I have shored against my ruins02td | 01td01a01i00 43002i02a02td | 02tr
| 00Why then Ile fit you. Hieronymo's mad againe.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata.02td | 01td01a00 02a02td | 02tr
| 00 02td | 02tr|
| 00 Shantih shantih shantih02td | 02tr
0Hi, 02br 02br 00This is one of the most sophsticated English modern poem by T. S Eliot. I had spent a whole semester studying it.
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