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A Cooking Egg
by T.S. Eliot

En l'an trentiesme do mon aage
Que toutes mes hontes j'ay beues...

Pipit sate upright in her chair
Some distance from where I was sitting;
Views of the Oxford Colleges
Lay on the table, with the knitting.

Daguerreotypes and silhouettes,
Her grandfather and great great aunts,
Supported on the mantelpiece
An Invitation to the Dance.

.....

I shall not want Honour in Heaven
For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney
And have talk with Coriolanus
And other heroes of that kidney.

I shall not want Capital in Heaven
For I shall meet Sir Alfred Mond.
We two shall lie together, lapt
In a five per cent. Exchequer Bond.

I shall not want Society in Heaven,
Lucretia Borgia shall be my Bride;
Her anecdotes will be more amusing
Than Pipit's experience could provide.

I shall not want Pipit in Heaven:
Madame Blavatsky will instruct me
In the Seven Sacred Trances;
Piccarda de Donati will conduct me.

.....

But where is the penny world I bought
To eat with Pipit behind the screen?
The red-eyed scavengers are creeping
From Kentish Town and Golder's Green;

Where are the eagles and the trumpets?

Buried beneath some snow-deep Alps.
Over buttered scones and crumpets
Weeping, weeping multitudes
Droop in a hundred A.B.C.'s

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	Poems by T.S. Eliot Ash Wednesday Aunt Helen A Cooking Egg Burbank With A Baedeker Bleistein With A Bustopher Jones The Cat About Town Four Quartets 1 Burnt Norton Four Quartets 2 East Coker Four Quartets 3 The Dry Salvages Four Quartets 4 Little Gidding Growltigers Last Stand Gus The Theatre Cat Journey Of The Magi La Figlia Che Piange The Weeping Girl Macavity The Mystery Cat Morning At The Window Mr Mistoffelees Mungojerrie And Rumpelteazer Old Deuteronomy Preludes Rhapsody On A Windy Night Skimbleshanks The Railway Cat Sweeney Among The Nightingales The Ad-Dressing Of Cats The Boston Evening Transcript The Hollow Men The Love Song Of J Alfred Prufrock The Naming Of Cats The Old Gumbie Cat The Rum Tum Tugger The Song Of The Jellicles


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