The Hollow Men

A penny for the Old Guy
                             I

We ______ the hollow men 
We are the stuffed men 
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when 
We whisper together 
Are quiet and ______
As wind in dry grass 
Or rats’ feet ______ broken glass
In our dry cellar

Shape without form, ______ without colour. 
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

Those ______ have crossed
With direct eyes, to death’s other Kingdom
______ us—if at all—not as lost 
Violent souls, but ______ 
As the hollow men 

                             II

Eyes ______ dare not meet in dreams 
In death’s dream ______ 
These do not appear:
There, the eyes are 
Sunlight on a broken column 
There, is a ______ swinging
And voices are 
In the wind’s singing 
More distant and more solemn 
Than a fading star.

Let me be no nearer 
In death’s dream ______ 
Let me also wear
Such deliberate disguises
Rat’s coat, crowskin, crossed staves
In a field
Behaving as the ______ behaves 
No nearer—

Not that final meeting 
______ the twilight kingdom

                             III

This is the dead ______
This is cactus land
Here the stone images
Are raised, here they receive
The supplication of a dead man’s ______
Under the twinkle of a fading star.

Is it ______ this
In death’s other kingdom
Waking alone
At the ______ when we are 
Trembling with tenderness 
Lips ______ would kiss
Form prayers to broken stone.

                             IV

______ eyes are not here 
There are no eyes ______ 
In this valley of dying stars 
In ______ hollow valley
This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms

______ this last of meeting places 
We grope together 
And avoid speech
Gathered on this beach of the ______ river

Sightless, unless 
The eyes reappear 
As ______ perpetual star
Multifoliate rose 
Of death’s twilight kingdom 
The hope only 
Of empty men.

                             V

______ we go round the prickly pear 
Prickly pear ______ pear 
Here we go round the prickly pear 
At five o’clock in the morning.

Between the idea 
And the reality 
Between the motion 
And ______ act 
Falls the Shadow

                                 For Thine is ______ Kingdom

Between the conception 
And the creation
Between ______ emotion 
And the response 
Falls the Shadow

                                 Life is very long

Between the desire 
And ______ spasm 
Between the potency 
And the existence 
Between the essence 
And the descent 
Falls ______ Shadow

                                 For Thine is the Kingdom

For Thine ______ 
Life is
For Thine is the

This is ______ way the world ends 
This is the way ______ world ends 
This is the way the world ______ 
Not with a bang but a whimper.

Here I In In Remember The are ends hand here hour is kingdom kingdom land like meaningless only over prickly shade that the the the the the the the the this tree tumid who wind