THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD by T. S. Eliot


April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with Spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
a little life with dried tubers.
Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee
With a shower of rain, we stopped the colonnade,
And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten,
And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.
Bin gar keine Russin, stamm' aus Litauen, echt deutsch.
And when we where children, staying at the arch duke's,
My cousin's, he took me out on a sled,
And I was frightened. He said, Marie,
Marie, hold on tight. And down we went.
In the mountains, there you feel free.
I read, much of the night and go south in the winter.

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What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats.
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
And the dry stone no sound of water. Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you a fear in a handful of dust.
Frisch weht der Wind
Der Heimat zu
Mein Irisch kind
Wo weiest du?
"You gave me hyacinths first a year ago;
They called me the hyacinth girl."
Yet, when we came back, late, from the hyacinth garden,
Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not
Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing,
Looking into the heart of light, the silence
Oed' und leer das Meer. . . . . . . . . To be continued.



JUNG DREAMS. Pictures and Symbols, their Captions.


Tibetan World Wheel (sidpe-korlo)

The Aztec "Great Calender Stone"

Mandala containing the infant Christ carrying the Cross- Mural painting by Albertus Pictor in the church of Harkeberga, Sweden.

Lamaic Vajramandala. - cf. Jung, Concerning Mandala Symbolism

Mexican calendar. - Herriberger, Heilige Ceremonien

Hermes as psychopomp.- Gem in a Roman ring,


Crowned dragon as tail-eater; two dragons forming a circle and, in the four corners, signs of the four elements.- Eleazar, Uraltes chymisches Werk

The putre factio without which the "goal" of the opus cannot be reached (hence the target shooting).- Stolcius de Stolcenberg, Viridarium chymicum


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SOME USESELESS INFORMATION. wORD mEANINGS.
sTARTING WITH THE LAST LETTER OF THE ALPHABET
- The ZEE.

Zoroastrianism: Religious system of ancient Persia and of the Parsees, based on the recognition of the dual principle of good and evil or light and darkness.

Zymurgy: Branch of applied Chemistry dealing with the science of wine-making, brewing and distilling

Zeugma: Figure of Grammar in which a verb or an adjective is applied to two nouns

, to only one of which it is strictly applicable either grammatically or logically.

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