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"The Second Coming"
by William Butler Yeats
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Turning and turning in the widening gyre
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The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
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Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
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Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
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The blood-dimmed tide is loosed,
and everywhere
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The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
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The best lack all conviction,
while the worst
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Are full of passionate intensity.
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Surely some revelation is at hand;
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Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
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The Second Coming!
Hardly are those words out
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When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
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Troubles my sight: somewhere
in sands of the desert
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A shape with lion body
and the head of a man,
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A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
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Is moving its slow thighs,
while all about it
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Reel shadows of
the indignant desert birds.
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The darkness drops again; but now I know
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That twenty centuries of stony sleep
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Were vexed to nightmare
by a rocking cradle,
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And what rough beast,
its hour come round at last,
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Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
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