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Et O ces voix d'enfants, chantant dans la coupole!
Eliot's Note:
202. V. Verlaine, Parsifal.
Additional info: In the poem “Parsifal”, Paul Verlaine writes of the deeds of the knight Percival, who stands alongside the Fisher King as a central character of the Grail legend. “Parsifal” summarizes the story of Percival and the king:
He has healed the king and now a king, in his pride,
He has himself become — priest of the Holy Grail The lines cited by Eliot are from the end of the poem:
And O those children's voices, singing in the cupola!
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