Tattoo for Last Stanza of East Coker

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Tattoo Design Brief
I would like to have a purely illustrative-based - black and white tattoo design, based upon the final stanza of T.S. Eliot's Poem East Coker. The location will be on the front forearm (image included below). It is a complex poem and I am interested to see how a designer can emphasize different elements in a coherent visual frame/flow.
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Designer to choose only greyscale colors for use in the design.
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Requirements
Must have
- Reference to the different symbols and images in the poem
Nice to have
- The last lines referencing how old men ought to be explorers, as well as the imagery of the dark cold and empty desolation.
Should not have
- No cartoons or color. Not a fan of playful.