1 posted on
01/07/2009 4:40:25 AM PST by
Clive
To: Clive
circa?
Nothing-new-under-the-sun alert.
To: Clive
oh, i’ve been a fan of yeats since college.
To: Clive
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.”
5 posted on
01/07/2009 5:09:36 AM PST by
SMARTY
("Stay together, pay the soldiers and forget everything else" Lucius Septimus Severus)
To: Clive
what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? First time I recall the line was reading "The Stand". It was intriguing enough to make me look it up and read the whole stanza.
6 posted on
01/07/2009 5:11:56 AM PST by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll)
To: Clive
7 posted on
01/07/2009 5:17:30 AM PST by
bossmechanic
(If all else fails, hit it with a hammer)
To: Clive
I think it was way back in the 60s that National Review turned me on to this poem. It was uncannily relevant then and even more so now. It was written about the decline of the West early in the 20th century, when the symptoms were already apparent.
To: Clive
WBY bookmark.
I used to read his poetry a lot when I was young. Wish I had a book of it now. I think he was a follower of Swedenborg, IIRC.
9 posted on
01/07/2009 11:51:03 AM PST by
little jeremiah
(Leave illusion, come to the truth. Leave the darkness, come to the light.)
To: Clive
10 posted on
01/23/2009 1:41:54 PM PST by
EveningStar
(Socialism in the USA began in 1933. In 2009 it kicked into warp drive.)
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson