Поэма Т.С. Элиота "Полые люди". Пестерев В.А. - 6 стр.

As the perpetual star
Multifoliate rose
Of death’s twilight kingdom
The hope only
Of empty men.

                     V
Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o’clock in the morning.
   Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
                              For Thine is the Kingdom
   Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow
                                      Life is very long
   Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
                              For Thine is the Kingdom
   For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the
   This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
                   –6–