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Eliot, T S - Four Quartets - 10 The Dry Salvages III
Identifier
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Type of Spiritual Experience
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ExtractsA description of the experience
T S Eliot – The Dry Salvages
Time the Destroyer is time the Preserver
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The future is a faded song, a Royal Rose or a lavender spray
Or wistful regret for those who are not yet here to regret
Pressed between yellow leaves of a book that has never been opened
And the way up is the way down, the way forward is the way back
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At night fall, in the rigging and the aerial
Is a voice descanting (though not to the ear
The murmuring shell of time, and not in any language)
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But to apprehend
The point of intersection of the timeless
With time, is an occupation for the saint
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For most of us, there is only the unattended
Moment, the moment in and out of time
The source of the experience
Eliot, T SConcepts, symbols and science items
Symbols
Science Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Overloads
AngstExtreme unhappiness
Overwhelming fear and terror
War.