Quotation by T.S. Eliot

He shall be washed as white as snow,
By all the martyr'd virgins kist,
While the True Church remains below
Wrapt in the old miasmal mist.
T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888–1965), Anglo-American critic, poet. The Hippopotamus (l. 33–36). . .

Norton Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I–II. M. H. Abrams, general ed. (5th ed., 1986) W. W. Norton & Company.
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