Puisi Terjemahan "Aunt Helen" [T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)]

Aunt Helen

T. S. Eliot - 1888-1965

Miss Helen Slingsby was my maiden aunt, 

And lived in a small house near a fashionable square 

Cared for by servants to the number of four. 

Now when she died there was silence in heaven 

And silence at her end of the street.

The shutters were drawn and the undertaker wiped his feet--- 

He was aware that this sort of thing had occurred before. 

The dogs were handsomely provided for, 

But shortly afterwards the parrot died too.