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To: Roman_War_Criminal

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?


7 posted on 07/17/2022 7:45:36 AM PDT by OwenKellogg (...if my people, who are called by my name...)
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To: OwenKellogg

Trying out your new random word generator, eh?


25 posted on 07/17/2022 12:15:16 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: OwenKellogg

“Slouching Toward Gomorrah” by Robert Bork is on my to-read list.


38 posted on 07/18/2022 8:24:07 AM PDT by P.O.E.
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