Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past. - T. S. Eliot

Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.

Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.

After the torchlight red on sweaty faces
After the frosty silence in the gardens
After the agony in stony places
The crying and the shouting
Prison and place and reverberation
Of thunder of spring over distant mountains
He was living is now dead
We who were living are now dying
With a little patience

In this decayed hole among the mountains</br>In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing</br>Over the tumbled graves, about the chapel</br>There is the empty chapel, only the wind's home.