Friday, February 23, 2024

Slouching Towards Bethlehem etc.


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.
...
Incomplete verses by my own editorial action, 
all still by W B Yeats, but you knew that anyway.
These words should get an outing on a regular basis.

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