Quotation by T.S. Eliot

Let those who go home tell the same story of you:
Of action with a common purpose, action
None the less fruitful if neither you nor we
Know, until the moment after death
What is the fruit of action.
T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888–1965), U.S.-born—British poet, critic. "To the Indians Who Died in Africa."
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