He knew the anguish of the marrow The ague of the skeleton No contact possible to flesh Allayed the fever of the bone.
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Shape without form, shade without color, Paralyzed force, gesture without motion Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember usif at allnot as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men.Thomas Stearns Eliot
After such knowledge, what forgiveness Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities.
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But at my back from time to time I hear The sound of horns and motors, which shall bring Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the spring. O the moon shone bright on Mrs. Porter And on her daughter They wash their feet in soda water.
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I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.
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