A dry pool fills with water out of sunlight, and for a moment the visible and the invisible occupy the same space, and all of time is present. T.S. Eliot composed these four poems between 1936 and 1942, each named for a place of personal significance, and together they form the most sustained meditation on time, memory, and the intersection of the temporal with the eternal in the English language. The verse moves between lyric intensity and prose-like reflection, circling its subjects the way prayer circles the inexpressible. Eliot, by then a committed Anglican, was reaching for a poetry adequate to mystical experience without abandoning the intellect. The result earns its final declaration: all manner of thing shall be well.