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{{quote|Turning and turning in the widening gyre |
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The falcon cannot hear the falconer; |
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Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; |
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Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, |
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The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere |
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The ceremony of innocence is drowned; |
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst |
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Are full of passionate intensity. |
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Surely some revelation is at hand; |
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Surely the [[Second Coming]] is at hand. |
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The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out |
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When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi |
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Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand; |
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A shape with lion body and the head of a man, |
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A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, |
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Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it |
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Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds. |
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The darkness drops again but now I know |
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That twenty centuries of stony sleep |
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Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, |
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And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, |
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Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? |
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|''[[William Butler Yeats]]''}} |
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[[William Butler Yeats]]' most famous poem. It is ''not'' about [[The End of the World as We Know It|the Apocalypse]] and the [[Self-Demonstrating Article|second coming of Christ]] -- rather, it's a window into Yeats's own cosmology and worldview, predicting the fall of the Christian world order and the rising of a new empire. It was written just after [[World War I]], the failed Irish Rising (in which Yeats lost several close friends), and the Russian Revolution (which [[Shell-Shocked Veteran|probably explains a lot]]). |
[[William Butler Yeats]]' most famous poem. It is ''not'' about [[The End of the World as We Know It|the Apocalypse]] and the [[Self-Demonstrating Article|second coming of Christ]] -- rather, it's a window into Yeats's own cosmology and worldview, predicting the fall of the Christian world order and the rising of a new empire. It was written just after [[World War I]], the failed Irish Rising (in which Yeats lost several close friends), and the Russian Revolution (which [[Shell-Shocked Veteran|probably explains a lot]]). |