Minggu, 12 Desember 2010

Sunday Poetry V -- A PRELUDE from T.S. Eliot

-- for those with a smaller appetite for poetry --

(I've always associated this poem with Christmastime.)

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The winter evening settles down
With smells of steaks in passageways.
Six o'clock.
The burnt-out ends of smoky days.
And now a gusty shower wraps
The grimy scraps
Of withered leaves about your feet
And newspapers from vacant lots;
The showers beat
On empty blinds and chimney-pots,
And at the corner of the street
A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps.

And then the lighting of the lamps.

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