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Atticus

(15,124 posts) Thu Sep 26, 2019, 03:34 PM Sep 2019

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Yeats, sort of---

The darkness drops again, but now I know
That forty years of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by an escalator
And, what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouched toward Washington to be born.

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Yeats, sort of--- (Original Post) Atticus Sep 2019 OP

What rough beast.... dawg day Sep 2019 #1

Looks like Nostradamous lame54 Sep 2019 #2

this is the 3rd time in 2 hours this poem has come up for me muriel_volestrangler Sep 2019 #3

I like it. You can call it "The 45th Coming" yonder Sep 2019 #4

dawg day

(7,947 posts)

1. What rough beast....

Reply to Atticus (Original post)

Thu Sep 26, 2019, 03:35 PM

Sep 2019

I think it's named "Retribution."

lame54

(35,287 posts)

2. Looks like Nostradamous

Reply to Atticus (Original post)

Thu Sep 26, 2019, 03:37 PM

Sep 2019

muriel_volestrangler

(101,311 posts)

3. this is the 3rd time in 2 hours this poem has come up for me

Reply to Atticus (Original post)

Thu Sep 26, 2019, 03:39 PM

Sep 2019

in completely unrelated contexts. Weird.

yonder

(9,664 posts)

4. I like it. You can call it "The 45th Coming"

Reply to Atticus (Original post)

Thu Sep 26, 2019, 04:15 PM

Sep 2019

WBY might agree.

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