One of my favorite Ariel poems of Eliot. I read this at my father's funeral in 1995, and have since committed it to memory. It contains what is perhaps the most powerful self-conscious understatement in all of literature, when the wise men arrive at the Christ-child's position:

And arrived at evening, not a moment too soon

Finding the place; it was (you may say) satisfactory.

Satisfactory, indeed. May each and every one of us find that satisfaction in Christ in this new year of 2022 and ever afterward!

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