THE SECOND COMING"
‘Tuming and turing in the widening gyre?
The falcan cannot hear the faleoner;
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 f passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand,
The Second Coming! Hardly zre those words out
When a vast image out of Spitus Mund
‘Troubles my sight: somewherein sands ofthe desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
AA gaze blank and pitiless as the sun
|s moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows ofthe indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now | know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed t0 nightmare by a rocking cradle,
‘And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
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