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Shamus

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2019.10.07 08:24

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot.

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Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streets
And watched the smoke that rises from the pipes
Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of windows? ...

I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully!
Smoothed by long fingers,
Asleep ... tired ... or it malingers,
Stretched on the floor, here beside you and me.
Should I, after tea and cakes and ices,
Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?
But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed,
Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter,
I am no prophet — and here’s no great matter;
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,
And in short, I was afraid.
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  • 何家 2019.10.07 08:53

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    i don't get you. what are you gona do?😰why are you afraid? leaning out of windows, eating the peach, looking at the seagirls on the beach😄
  • melodycat 2019.10.07 13:01

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    😆😆😆😆😆

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