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Ash-Wednesday

Ash-Wednesday

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Because I do not hope to turn again
Because I do not hope
Because I do not hope to turn
Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope
I no longer strive to strive towards such things
(Why should the aged eagle stretch its wings?)
Why should I mourn
The vanished power of the usual reign?

T. S. Eliot's 1930 devotional poem in six parts, written after his conversion to Anglo-Catholicism — a meditation on doubt, penitence, and the search for grace, ranked among the great religious poems of the twentieth century.

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