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The Waste Land

Line 429

Le Prince d'Aquitaine à la tour abolie

Eliot's Note

429. V. Gerard de Nerval, Sonnet El Desdichado.

Context

From W. C. Thorley's translation of de Nerval's “El Desdichado”:

The Prince of Aquitaine whose palace spire lies low in the dust

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