(Have you seen this early Eliot?)
NOCTURNE
Romeo, grand serieux, to importune
guitar and hat in hand, beside the gate
With Juliet, in the usual debate
Of love, beneath a bored but courteous moon;
The conversation failing, strikes some tune
Banal, and out of pity for their fate
Behind the wall I have some servant wait
Stab, and the lady sinks into a swoon.
Blood looks effective on the moonlit ground-
The hero smiles; in my best mode oblique
Rolls toward the moon a frenzied eye profound,
(No need of "Love forever?" - "Love next week?")
While female readers all in tears are drowned: -
"The perfect climax all true lovers seek!"
TS Eliot, from <u>The Harvard Advocate</u>, November 12, 1909
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