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To: ifinnegan

It’s from a poem by Keats.

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: somewhere in sands of the desert
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
Reel 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?


104 posted on 10/07/2016 8:12:12 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Brace. Brace. Brace. Heads down. Do not look up.)
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To: Vermont Lt

Thanks.


115 posted on 10/07/2016 8:19:00 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Vermont Lt
You meant Yeats, not Keats.

Keats is the one who wrote a sonnet about how much a Grecian earns, or something like that.

123 posted on 10/07/2016 8:29:05 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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