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+<div style='text-align:center'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 78023 ***</div>
+
+
+
+<h1 class="fnormal fs150 p2 p2b">
+ASH-WEDNESDAY
+</h1>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<p class="center linesp p4b">
+  <span class="fs175">ASH-WEDNESDAY</span><br>
+
+  <span class="fs100">BY</span><br>
+  <span class="fs125">T. S. ELIOT</span></p>
+<p class="center fs100 word-sp">NEW YORK : LONDON</p>
+<p class="center fs125">G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS</p>
+<p class="center gothic">The Knickerbocker Press</p>
+<p class="center fs110">1930</p>
+
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<p class="center">
+<b>ASH-WEDNESDAY</b></p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter illowe2">
+  <img class="w100" src="images/decoration.jpg" data-role="presentation" alt="">
+</figure>
+<p class="center">
+Copyright, 1930</p>
+<p class="center">by</p>
+<p class="center p1b">T. S. Eliot</p>
+
+<p class="center">Published, Autumn, 1930</p>
+
+<p class="center p1b"><b>First American Trade Edition</b></p>
+
+<p class="center p2b">All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, must
+not be reproduced in any form without permission.</p>
+
+<figure class="figcenter illowe7">
+  <img class="w100" src="images/colophon.jpg" alt="Colophon">
+  <figcaption>
+      <p class="fnormal fs63">The Knickerbocker
+    Press<br>New York</p>
+  </figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<p class="center">Made in the United States of America</p>
+
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<p class="center p2 p2b">
+TO<br>
+<span class="fs150 linesp">MY WIFE</span>
+</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+  <p class="nobreak fnormal fs175 center">
+    ASH-WEDNESDAY
+
+
+  </p>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</span></p>
+<div class="chapter">
+  <h2 class="nobreak fnormal fs125" id="I">
+    I
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Because I do not hope to turn again</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Because I do not hope</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Because I do not hope to turn</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Desiring this man’s gift and that man’s scope</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">I no longer strive to strive towards such things</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">(Why should the agèd eagle stretch its wings?)</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Why should I mourn</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The vanished power of the usual reign?</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Because I do not hope to know again</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The infirm glory of the positive hour</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Because I do not think</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Because I know I shall not know</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The one veritable transitory power</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Because I cannot drink</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">There, where trees flower, and springs flow, for there is nothing again</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Because I know that time is always time</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And place is always and only place</div>
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</span>      <div class="verse indent0">And what is actual is actual only for one time</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And only for one place</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">I rejoice that things are as they are and</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">I renounce the blessèd face</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And renounce the voice</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Because I cannot hope to turn again</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Consequently I rejoice, having to construct something</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Upon which to rejoice</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">And pray to God to have mercy upon us</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And I pray that I may forget</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">These matters that with myself I too much discuss</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Too much explain</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Because I do not hope to turn again</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Let these words answer</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">For what is done, not to be done again</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">May the judgement not be too heavy upon us</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Because these wings are no longer wings to fly</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">But merely vans to beat the air</div>
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</span>      <div class="verse indent0">The air which is now thoroughly small and dry</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Smaller and dryer than the will</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Teach us to care and not to care</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Teach us to sit still.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Pray for us now and at the hour of our death.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak fs125 fnormal" id="II">
+    II
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper-tree</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In the cool of the day, having fed to satiety</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">On my legs my heart my liver and that which had been contained</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In the hollow round of my skull. And God said</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Shall these bones live? shall these</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Bones live? And that which had been contained</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In the bones (which were already dry) said chirping:</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Because of the goodness of this Lady</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And because of her loveliness, and because</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">She honours the Virgin in meditation,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">We shine with brightness. And I who am here dissembled</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Proffer my deeds to oblivion, and my love</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">To the posterity of the desert and the fruit of the gourd.</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">It is this which recovers</div>
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</span>      <div class="verse indent0">My guts the strings of my eyes and the indigestible portions</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Which the leopards reject. The Lady is withdrawn</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In a white gown, to contemplation, in a white gown.</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Let the whiteness of bones atone to forgetfulness.</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">There is no life in them. As I am forgotten</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And would be forgotten, so I would forget</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Thus devoted, concentrated in purpose. And God said</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Prophesy to the wind, to the wind only for only</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The wind will listen. And the bones sang chirping</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">With the burden of the grasshopper, saying</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Lady of silences</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Calm and distressed</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Torn and most whole</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Rose of memory</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Rose of forgetfulness</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Exhausted and life-giving</div>
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</span>      <div class="verse indent0">Worried reposeful</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The single Rose</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Is now the Garden</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Where all loves end</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Terminate torment</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Of love unsatisfied</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The greater torment</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Of love satisfied</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">End of the endless</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Journey to no end</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Conclusion of all that</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Is inconclusible</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Speech without word and</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Word of no speech</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Grace to the Mother</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">For the Garden</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Where all love ends.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Under a juniper-tree the bones sang, scattered and shining</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">We are glad to be scattered, we did little good to each other,</div>
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</span>      <div class="verse indent0">Under a tree in the cool of the day, with the blessing of sand,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Forgetting themselves and each other, united</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In the quiet of the desert. This is the land which ye</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Shall divide by lot. And neither division nor unity</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Matters. This is the land. We have our inheritance.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak fnormal fs125" id="III">
+    III
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">At the first turning of the second stair</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">I turned and saw below</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The same shape twisted on the banister</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Under the vapour in the fetid air</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Struggling with the devil of the stairs who wears</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The deceitful face of hope and of despair.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">At the second turning of the second stair</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">I left them twisting, turning below;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">There were no more faces and the stair was dark,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Damp, jaggèd like an old man’s mouth drivelling, beyond repair,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Or the toothed gullet of an agèd shark.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">At the first turning of the third stair</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Was a slotted window bellied like the fig’s fruit</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And beyond the hawthorn blossom and a pasture scene</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The broadbacked figure drest in blue and green</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Enchanted the maytime with an antique flute.</div>
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</span>      <div class="verse indent0">Blown hair is sweet, brown hair over the mouth blown,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Lilac and brown hair;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Distraction, music of the flute, stops and steps of the mind over the third stair,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Fading, fading; strength beyond hope and despair</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Climbing the third stair.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Lord, I am not worthy</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Lord, I am not worthy</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent18">but speak the word only.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak fnormal fs125" id="IV">
+    IV
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Who walked between the violet and the violet</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Who walked between</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The various ranks of varied green</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Going in white and blue, in Mary’s colour,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Talking of trivial things</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In ignorance and in knowledge of eternal dolour</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Who moved among the others as they walked,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Who then made strong the fountains and made fresh the springs</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Made cool the dry rock and made firm the sand</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In blue of larkspur, blue of Mary’s colour,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0"><span lang="it">Sovegna vos</span></div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Here are the years that walk between, bearing</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Away the fiddles and the flutes, restoring</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">One who moves in the time between sleep and waking, wearing</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">White light folded, sheathed about her, folded.</div>
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</span>      <div class="verse indent0">The new years walk, restoring</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Through a bright cloud of tears, the years, restoring</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">With a new verse the ancient rhyme. Redeem</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The time. Redeem</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The unread vision in the higher dream</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">While jewelled unicorns draw by the gilded hearse.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">The silent sister veiled in white and blue</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Between the yews, behind the garden god,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Whose flute is breathless, bent her head and signed but spoke no word</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">But the fountain sprang up and the bird sang down</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Redeem the time, redeem the dream</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The token of the word unheard, unspoken</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Till the wind shake a thousand whispers from the yew</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">And after this our exile</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak fnormal fs125" id="V">
+    V
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">If the unheard, unspoken</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Word is unspoken, unheard;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Still is the unspoken word, the Word unheard,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The Word without a word, the Word within</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The world and for the world;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And the light shone in darkness and</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">About the centre of the silent Word.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent4">O my people, what have I done unto thee.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Where shall the word be found, where will the word</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Not on the sea or on the islands, not</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">On the mainland, in the desert or the rain land,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">For those who walk in darkness</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Both in the day time and in the night time</div>
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</span>      <div class="verse indent0">The right time and the right place are not here</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">No place of grace for those who avoid the face</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the voice</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Will the veiled sister pray for</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Those who walk in darkness, who chose thee and oppose thee,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Those who are torn on the horn between season and season, time and time, between</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Hour and hour, word and word, power and power, those who wait</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In darkness? Will the veiled sister pray</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">For children at the gate</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Who will not go away and cannot pray:</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Pray for those who chose and oppose</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent4">O my people, what have I done unto thee.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Will the veiled sister between the slender</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Yew-trees pray for those who offend her</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And are terrified and cannot surrender</div>
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</span>      <div class="verse indent0">And affirm before the world and deny between the rocks</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In the last desert between the last blue rocks</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The desert in the garden the garden in the desert</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Of drouth, spitting from the mouth the withered apple-seed.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent20">O my people.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</span></p>
+
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak fnormal fs125" id="VI">
+    VI
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Although I do not hope to turn again</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Although I do not hope</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Although I do not hope to turn</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Wavering between the profit and the loss</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In this brief transit where the dreams cross</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The dreamcrossed twilight between birth and dying</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">(Bless me father) though I do not wish to wish these things</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">From the wide window towards the granite shore</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The white sails still fly seaward, seaward flying</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Unbroken wings</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">And the lost heart stiffens and rejoices</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In the lost lilac and the lost sea voices</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And the weak spirit quickens to rebel</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">For the bent golden-rod and the lost sea smell</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Quickens to recover</div>
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</span>      <div class="verse indent0">The cry of quail and the whirling plover</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And the blind eye creates</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The empty forms between the ivory gates</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And smell renews the salt savour of the sandy earth</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">This is the time of tension between dying and birth</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The place of solitude where three dreams cross</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Between blue rocks</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">But when the voices shaken from the yew-tree drift away</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Let the other yew be shaken and reply.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Blessèd sister, holy mother, spirit of the fountain, spirit of the garden,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Suffer us not to mock ourselves with falsehood</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Teach us to care and not to care</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Teach us to sit still</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Even among these rocks,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Our peace in His will</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And even among these rocks</div>
+<span class="pagenum" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</span>      <div class="verse indent0">Sister, mother</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And spirit of the river, spirit of the sea,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Suffer me not to be separated</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">And let my cry come unto Thee.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="transnote">
+  <h2 class="nobreak fs100 fnormal center nopad" id="Transcribers_Notes">
+    Transcriber’s Notes
+  </h2>
+
+
+
+<p class="center">Original spelling and punctuation have been retained.
+New original cover art included with this eBook is granted to the public domain.</p>
+
+</div>
+<div style='text-align:center'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 78023 ***</div>
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