William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
\n THE SECOND COMING<\/p>\n
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
\n The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
\n Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
\n Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
\n The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
\n The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
\n The best lack all conviction, while the worst
\n Are full of passionate intensity.<\/p>\n
Surely some revelation is at hand;
\n Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
\n The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
\n When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
\n Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
\n A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
\n A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
\n Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
\n Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.<\/p>\n
The darkness drops again but now I know
\n That twenty centuries of stony sleep
\n Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
\n And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
\n Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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