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Posted on May 20, 2018May 15, 2018

Pentecost: The Dove Descending Breaks the Air

From Little Gidding, TS Eliot: The dove descending breaks the air With flames of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only…

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Posted on February 14, 2018February 14, 2018

T.S. Eliot: Ash Wednesday

Originally posted on The Broken Towers:
Today is Ash Wednesday and although I did not want to provide a reading of a long poem for some time, I thought not…

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