V. Verlaine, Parsifal.
Eliot refers us to the French poem Parsifal by Paul Verlaine.
The quoted line and its preceding lines can be viewed in French and English at URL http://home.sn.no/~deverett/verlaine.htm
Parsifal is available here in French only.
Parsifal is discussed further on the Miscellanea page for line 202
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