Mr. Eliot’s Sunday Morning
Service
Look, look, master, here comes two religious
caterpillars.
THE JEW OF MALTA.1
Polyphiloprogenitive2
The sapient sutlers3 of the Lord
Drift across the window-panes.
In the beginning was the Word.
The sapient sutlers3 of the Lord
Drift across the window-panes.
In the beginning was the Word.
In the beginning was the Word.
Superfetation4 of τò eν, 5
And at the mensual6 turn of time
Produced enervate Origen.7
Superfetation4 of τò eν, 5
And at the mensual6 turn of time
Produced enervate Origen.7
A painter of the Umbrian school8
Designed upon a gesso ground9
The nimbus10 of the Baptized God.
The wilderness is cracked and browned
Designed upon a gesso ground9
The nimbus10 of the Baptized God.
The wilderness is cracked and browned
But through the water pale and thin
Still shine the unoffending feet
And there above the painter set
The Father and the Paraclete.11
Still shine the unoffending feet
And there above the painter set
The Father and the Paraclete.11
The sable presbyters12
approach
The avenue of penitence;
The young are red and pustular
Clutching piaculative pence.13
The avenue of penitence;
The young are red and pustular
Clutching piaculative pence.13
Under the penitential gates
Sustained by staring Seraphlm14
Where the souls of the devout
Burn invisible and dim.
Sustained by staring Seraphlm14
Where the souls of the devout
Burn invisible and dim.
Along the garden-wall the bees
With hairy bellies pass between
The staminate and pistillate,15
Blest office of the epicene.16
With hairy bellies pass between
The staminate and pistillate,15
Blest office of the epicene.16
Sweeney shifts from ham to ham
Stirring the water in his bath.
The masters of the subtle schools
Are controversial, polymath.17
Stirring the water in his bath.
The masters of the subtle schools
Are controversial, polymath.17