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On Misused Gifts from God

More on T.S. Eliot's "Choruses from The Rock"

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O. Alan Noble
Aug 30, 2024
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Continuing in my series on Eliot’s “Choruses from The Rock” (see parts one, two, and three), today I want to look at a stanza in the third section which deals with the theme of the misuse of God’s good gifts:

The Word of the LORD came unto me, saying:
O miserable cities of designing men,
O wretched generation of enlighte…

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