6/20/2023 0 Comments Ts eliot east coker![]() ![]() The time of the seasons and the constellations ![]() Leaping through the flames, or joined in circles,Įarth feet, loam feet, lifted in country mirth Holding eche other by the hand or the arm On a summer midnight, you can hear the music If you do not come too close, if you do not come too close, Is absorbed, not refracted, by grey stone. Where you lean against a bank while a van passes,Īnd the deep lane insists on the direction Shuttered with branches, dark in the afternoon, Now the light fallsĪcross the open field, leaving the deep lane Houses live and die: there is a time for buildingĪnd a time for the wind to break the loosened paneĪnd to shake the wainscot where the field-mouse trotsĪnd to shake the tattered arras woven with a silent motto. Old fires to ashes, and ashes to the earthīone of man and beast, cornstalk and leaf. Old stone to new building, old timber to new fires, Is an open field, or a factory, or a by-pass. Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended,Īre removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place Eliot’s ancestors originated from East Coker before emigrating to America in the 17th century. East Coker is also the title of the second of the long poems that make up The Four Quartets. He was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium and his ashes were interred below his memorial plaque on Easter Sunday 1965. ![]() Thomas Stearns Eliot is buried in the Parish Church of St. ![]()
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