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The Waste Land

Line 42

Oed’ und leer das Meer.

Eliot's Note

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

Context

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

Empty and desolate is the sea.

References