Eyes that last I saw in tears
Through division
Here in death's dream kingdom
The golden vision reappears
I see the eyes but not the tears
This is my affliction
This is my affliction
Eyes I shall not see again
Eyes of decision
Eyes I shall not see unless
At the door of death's other kingdom
Where, as in this,
The eyes outlast a little while
A little while outlast the tears
And hold us in derision.
Thomas Stearns Eliot. (St. Louis, Missouri, 1888 - Londres, 1965). Doctor en Filosofía por la Universidad de Harvard. Poeta, dramaturgo y crítico literario. Premio Nobel de Literatura 1948.