Who is the Third...._

[lovedolly]

здравствуйте, не подскажите, где можно найти стихотворение T.S. Eliot с такими словами... "Who is the third..?" или есть какой-то афоризм,который бы раскрыл смысл...
Эта сторка была использована как эпиграф к стихотворению "Ети"

[nephew]

все есть в сети, и даже комментарий найдется
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Who is the third who walks always beside you?
When I count, there are only you and I together
But when I look ahead up the white road
There is always another one walking beside you
Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded
I do not know whether a man or a woman
- But who is that on the other side of you?

The (...) lines were stimulated by the account of one of the Antarctic expeditions (I forget which, but I think one of Shackleton's): it was related that the party of explorers, at the extremity of their strength, had the constant delusion that there was one more member than could actually be counted.