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turning and turning in the widening gyre

Ancient Lair

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Moonportal

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turning and turning in the widening gyre
the falcon cannot hear the falconer;
things fall apart; the center 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 these words out
when a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
troubles my sight: somewhere in the sands of the desert
a shape with a lion body and the head of a man
a gaze black 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 toward Bethlehem to be born?

William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming