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T. s. Eliot's View in Old age

Aug 30, 2004 03:29 PM
by Andrew Smith


And would it have been worth it, after all,
After the cups, the marmalade, the tea,
Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me,
Would it have been worth while,
To have bitten off the matter with a smile,
To have squeezed the universe into a ball
To roll it towards some overwhelming question,
To say: 'I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all'--
If one, settling a pillow by her head,
Should say: 'That is not what I meant at all.
That is not it, at all.'



Andrew W. Smith
"He has seen but half the universe who never has been shown the House of Pain." --- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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