to the place where she was ues, where work and relaxation are both real and seduced: 'When lovely woman stoops to folly/And take place in a context of religious meaning. finds too late that men betray / What charm can 1. The Song of the (three) Thames-daughters soothe her melancholy, / What art can wash her begins here. From line 292 to 306 inclusive they guilt away? / The only art her guilt to cover, / To speak in turn. V. Gotterdammerung, III, i: the hide her shame from every eye, / To give repen-Rhinedaughters [Eliot's note]. Eliot parallels the tance to her lover / And wring his bosom?is to Thames-daughters with the Rhinemaidens in Wag- die.' ner's opera Gotterdammerung (The Twilight of the 8. V. The Tempest, as above [Eliot's note]. Cf. line Gods), who lament that, with the gold of the Rhine 48. The line is from Ferdinand's speech, continu-stolen, the beauty of the river is gone. The refrain ing after 'weeping again the King my father's in lines 277?78 is borrowed from Wagner. wTack.'
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270 Red sails Wide To leeward, swing on the heavy spar. The barges wash Drifting logs
275 Down Greenwich reach
Past the Isle of Dogs.2 Weialala leia Wallala leialala
Elizabeth and Leicester'
280 Beating oars The stern was formed A gilded shell Red and gold The brisk swell
285 Rippled both shores Southwest wind Carried down stream The peal of bells White towers
290 Weialala leia Wallala leialala
'Trams and dusty trees. Highbury bore me. Richmond and Kew Undid me.4 By Richmond I raised my knees
295 Supine on the floor of a narrow canoe.'
'My feet are at Moorgate,'5 and my heart Under my feet. After the event He wept. He promised 'a new start.' I made no comment. What should I resent?'
300 'On Margate6 Sands. I can connect Nothing with nothing. The broken fingernails of dirty hands. My people humble people who expect
305 Nothing.' la la
To Carthage then I came7
2. Greenwich is a borough in London on the south Greenwich Hospital now stands. side of the Thames; opposite is the Isle of Dogs (a 4. Cf. Purgatorio, V, 133 [Eliot's note]. The Piirpeninsula). gatorio lines, which Eliot here parodies, may be 3. The fruitless love of Queen Elizabeth and the translated: 'Remember me, who am La Pia. / Siena earl of Leicester (Robert Dudley) is recalled in made me, Maremma undid me.' 'Highbury': a resEliot's note: 'V. [J. A.] Froude, Elizabeth, Vol. I, idential London suburb. 'Richmond': a pleasant eh. iv, letter of De Quadra to Philip of Spain: 'In part of London westward up the Thames, with the afternoon we were in a barge, watching the boating and riverside hotels. 'Kew': adjoining games on the river. (The queen) was alone with Richmond, has the famous Kew Gardens. Lord Robert and myself on the poop, when they 5. Underground (i.e., subway) station Eliot used began to talk nonsense, and went so far that Lord daily while working at Lloyds Bank. Robert at last said, as I was on the spot there was 6. Popular seaside resort on the Thames estuary. no reason why they should not be married if the 7. V. St. Augustine's Confessions: 'to Carthage queen pleased.' ' Queen Elizabeth 1 was born in then 1 came, where a caldron of unholy loves sang the old Greenwich House, by the river, where all about mine ears' [Eliot's note]. The passage
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Burning burning burning burning8 O Lord Thou pluckest me out9 310 O Lord Thou pluckest
burning
TV. Death by Water]
Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead, Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell And the profit and loss.
315 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 320 O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
V. Wliat the Thunder Said2 After the torchlight red on sweaty faces After the frosty silence in the gardens After the agony in stony places
325 The shouting and the crying Prison and palace and reverberation Of thunder of spring over distant mountains He who was living is now dead3 We who were living are now dying
330 With a little patience
Here is no water but only rock Rock and no water and the sandy road The road winding above among the mountains Which are mountains of rock without water
335 If there were water we should stop and drink Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think Sweat is dry and feet are in the sand If there were only water amongst the rock
from the Confessions quoted here occurs in St. infatuation.' For Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, see Augustine's account of his youthful life of lust. Cf. Matthew 5-7. line 92 and its note. 9. From St. Augustine's Confessions again. The
8. The complete text of the Buddha's Fire Sermon collocation of these two representatives of eastern (which corresponds in importance to the Sermon and western asceticism, as the culmination of this on the Mount) from which these words are taken, part of the poem, is not an accident [Eliot's note]. will be found translated in the late Henry Clarke 1. This section has been interpreted as signifying Warren's Buddhism in Translation (Harvard Orien- death by water without resurrection or as symboltal Series). Mr. Warren was one of the great pio-izing the
