Eliot's Notes to "The Waste Land" // 1.42

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Oed’ und leer das Meer.

Eliot's Note:

42. [V. Tristan und Isolde,] III, verse 24.

Translation of text:

For a brief desicription of Tristan and Isolde and context for this quote, see note to line 31. From R. Le Gallienne's translation:

Empty and desolate is the sea.

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