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Quotation from Journey of the Magi by T. S. Eliot
“‘A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter.’”
Journey of the Magi, Lines 1-5 (Ariel Poems no. 8, 1927)
The opening, set in quotation marks, adapts Lancelot Andrewes's Christmas sermon of 1622.
Citation: "‘A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter.’" — T. S. Eliot, Journey of the Magi, Lines 1-5 (Ariel Poems no. 8, 1927). (id journey-of-the-magi-q1)
Portrait: T S Eliot 1927 The Journey of the Magi No 8 Ariel Poems Faber, Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890–1954), Public domain.
