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Section 0 of The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
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IV. Death by Water
Lines 312–321Phlebas
The brief elegy for Phlebas the Phoenician, who forgot profit and loss in death
Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead, Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell And the profit and loss. A current under sea Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell He passed the stages of his age and youth Entering the whirlpool.
Gentile or Jew O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
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