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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt just seems so appropriate, somehow.
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
THE SECOND COMING
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,627 posts)That's because it IS appropriate.
Thank you for posting this great poem.
Prisoner_Number_Six
(15,676 posts)Been having great fun doing some stuff- I plan to post about it soon.
Meanwhile, today I turn 62 years old. Party at my house (not)!
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,627 posts)62??? Just a kid. Try being 73! Bleah.
I look forward to your coming posts!
furtheradu
(1,865 posts)HOPE (!) YOU are doing well!