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Posted on: Nov 03, '07

From Yeats' "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 the 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?

                                           --- William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)

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rayn_cloud said:
yeats's lines describe very accurately what's happening in these times...my anxiety is...when the blood dimmed tide retreats and the rough beast makes it appearance,are we equipped to face it?

November 04, '07

sazzyme said:
thanks for sharing..my fav-the best lack all conviction,while the worst are full of passionate intensity..
food for thought-the zeitgeist of our times???

November 04, '07

GREECE2002 said:
VERY NICE DOCTOR BUT WHERE ARE YOU MY FRIEND?

November 03, '07

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