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Lines 20-24:
...Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water. Eliot's Note:
23. Cf. Ecclesiastes XII, v.
Citation: Ecclesiastes 12:5, from the ESV translation of the Bible:
They are afraid also of what is high, and terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the
grasshopper drags itself along, and desire fails, because man is going to his eternal home, and
the mourners go about the streets—
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