Four Quartets


Four Quartets

The dove descending
breaks up the air
with a flame of burning terror
of witch the tongues declare

the only hope or else despair
lies in choice of pyre
to be redeemed from fire by fire

and every time four quartets end
could I, could I, could I,
point unto the other end
could I, could I, could I,
be waiting for the other land
waiting maybe into the other land

who then devised the torment?
love love is the unfamiliar name
behind the hands that wove
the intolerable shirt of flames
which human power cannot remove
we only live, only suspire
consumed by either fire or fire



T.S. Elliot rip-off -
Groningen 1984




©Tjook

Performed by Rhu-Barb – Tjook vocal, lyrics, guitars and composition, Titus Smid on base and Dick Boshoff on drums – Groningen NL