The rats are underneath the piles/ The Jew is underneath the lot. ✨ T.…

T. S. Eliot
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The rats are underneath the piles/ The Jew is underneath the lot. ✨ T.S. Eliot (2010). The Waste Land and Other Poems, p.45, Broadview Press
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The rats are underneath the piles/ The Jew is underneath the lot. ✨ T.S. Eliot (2010). The Waste Land and Other Poems, p.45, Broadview Press

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