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... fire As in the gold mosaic of a wall , Come from the holy fire , perne in a gyre , And be the singing - masters of my soul . Consume my heart away ; sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what 18.
... fire As in the gold mosaic of a wall , Come from the holy fire , perne in a gyre , And be the singing - masters of my soul . Consume my heart away ; sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what 18.
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... fire , in the greatest of his Four Quartets , it was the fire of redemption by the Holy Spirit , ' the one release from sin and error ' , not the metamorphosis that Yeats imagined for himself , into a metal bird to sing on a golden ...
... fire , in the greatest of his Four Quartets , it was the fire of redemption by the Holy Spirit , ' the one release from sin and error ' , not the metamorphosis that Yeats imagined for himself , into a metal bird to sing on a golden ...
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... fire by fire . The image of the Shirt of Nessus ( The intolerable shirt of flame ' ) which occurs in the second stanza , and so vividly supple- ments the fiery pyre of the first , is new in Eliot's poetry . You will remember that Nessus ...
... fire by fire . The image of the Shirt of Nessus ( The intolerable shirt of flame ' ) which occurs in the second stanza , and so vividly supple- ments the fiery pyre of the first , is new in Eliot's poetry . You will remember that Nessus ...
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