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- A Boat in the Whirlpool
- Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight
dead,
- Forgot the cry of the gulls,
and the deep sea swell
- And the profit and loss.
- A current under sea
- Picked his bones in whispers.
As he rose and fell
- He passed the stages of his
age and youth
- Entering the whirlpool.
- Gentile or Jew
- Oh you who turn the wheel and
look to windward,
- Consider Phlebas, who was once
handsome and tall as
- you.
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