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Quotation from Journey of the Magi by T. S. Eliot
“We returned to our places, these Kingdoms, But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation, With an alien people clutching their gods. I should be glad of another death.”
Journey of the Magi, Lines 40-43 (Ariel Poems no. 8, 1927)
The ending: home has become foreign, and the speaker longs for another death.
Citation: "We returned to our places, these Kingdoms, But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation, With an alien people clutching their gods. I should be glad of another death." — T. S. Eliot, Journey of the Magi, Lines 40-43 (Ariel Poems no. 8, 1927). (id journey-of-the-magi-q5)
Portrait: T S Eliot 1927 The Journey of the Magi No 8 Ariel Poems Faber, Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890–1954), Public domain.
