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==Stanza 1==

===Title===


===Lines 312-314===
    
    Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead,
    
    Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell
    
    And the profit and loss.

==Stanza 2==

===Lines 315-318===
                                  A current under sea
    
    Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell
    
    He passed the stages of his age and youth
    
    Entering the whirlpool.

==Stanza 3==

===Lines 319-321===

    Gentile or Jew
    
    O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, 
    
    Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.