she turns and looks a moment in the glass,

hardly aware of her departed lover; 

her brain allows one half-formed thought to pass:

"well now thats done: and im glad its over."

when lovely woman stoops to folly and

paces about her room again, alone,

she smoothes her hair with automatic hand,

and puts a record on the gramophone. 

"this music crept by me upon the waters"

and along the strand, up queen victoria street.

o city city, i can sometimes hear

beside a public bar in lower thames street, 

the pleasant whining of a mandoline

and a clatter and a chatter from within

where fishmen lounge at noon: where the walls

of magnus martyr hold

inexplicable splendour of ionian white and gold. 

the river sweats

oil and tar

the barges drift

with the turning tide

red sails  

wide

to leeward, swing on the heavy spar.

the barges wash

drifting logs

down greenwich reach

past the isle of dogs.

weialala leia

wallala leialala 

elizabeth and leicester

beating oars   

the stern was formed

a gilded shell

red and gold

the brisk swell

rippled both shores

southwest wind

carried down stream

the peal of bells

white towers

weialala leia 

wallala leialala 

"trams and dusty trees.

highbury bore me. richmond and kew

undid me. by richmond i raised my knees

supine on the floor of a narrow canoe." 

"my feet are at moorgate, and my heart

under my feet. after the event

he wept. he promised a new start.

i made no comment. what should i resent?"

"on margate sands.  

i can connect

nothing with nothing.

the broken fingernails of dirty hands.

my people humble people who expect

nothing."

la la 

to carthage then i came 

burning burning burning burning

o lord thou pluckest me out

o lord thou pluckest 

burning

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四、水里的死亡 

扶里巴斯，那腓尼基人，死了两星期， 

他忘了海鸥的啼唤，深渊里的巨浪， 

利润和损失。 

　海底的一股洋流 

低语着啄他的骨头。就在一起一落时光 

他经历了苍老和青春的阶段 

而进入旋涡。 

　犹太或非犹太人呵， 

你们转动轮盘和观望风向的， 

想想他，也曾象你们一样漂亮而高大。 

iv. death by water 

phlebas the phoenician, a fortnight dead,