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Rivers.

This is what T S Eliot has to say about rivers. The first two lines made me buy the whole book

I do not know much about rivers; but I think that the river
is a strong brown god –sullen, untamed and intractable,
Patient to some degree, at first recognised as a frontier;
Useful, untrustworthy, as a conveyor of commerce;
Then only a problem confronting the builder of bridges.

No sé mucho sobre ríos; pero creo que el río
es un dios fuerte, marrón -taciturno, indomable,
paciente hasta cierto punto, descubierto primero como frontera;
útil, traicionero, cuando facilita el comercio;
y después, sólo el problema al que se enfrenta el constructor de un puente.

 

 

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