The Second Coming
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"The Second Coming" The Second Coming -- W. B. Yeats 1 Turning and turning in the widening gyre 2 The falcon cannot hear the falconer; 3 Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; 4 Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, 5 The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere 6 The ceremony of innocence is drowned; 7 The best lack all convictions, while the worst 8 Are full of passionate intensity. 9 Surely some revelation is at hand; 10 Surely the Second Coming is at hand. 11 The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out 12 When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi 13 Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert 14 A shape with lion body and the head of a man, 15 A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, 16 Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it 17 Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. 18 The darkness drops again; but now I know 19 That twenty centuries of stony sleep 20 Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, 21 And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, 22 Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? Share with your friends:
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