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      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2000

      Copyright © Lynne Pemberton 2000

      Extract from ‘Usk’ from the Collected Poems 1909–62 by T. S. Eliot (published by Faber and Faber Ltd) reproduced by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd.

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