• There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.

  T. S. Eliot
  British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic 1888-1965
  

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2. eviscerate
3. without
4. laughs
5. upper
6. gapes

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There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth. by : T. S. Eliot

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