關係"Empty" 這字,Eliot佇〈Burnt Norton〉第一章有驚人的心靈描寫,焦的水池予日頭之液添滿,佇what might have been的可能存在裡,蓮花靜靜對池中升起(生長),咱心的靈視嘛耀佇內面,當一片雲飄過,這片予日光注滿的水池就empty矣:
Dry the pool, dry concrete, brown edged,
And the pool was filled with water out of sunlight,
And the lotos rose, quietly, quietly,
The surface glittered out of heart of light,
And they were behind us, reflected in the pool.
Then a cloud passed, and the pool was…
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