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Prisoner_Number_Six

(15,676 posts)
Wed Jun 7, 2017, 04:20 PM Jun 2017

It just seems so appropriate, somehow.

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

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: a waste of desert sand;
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
Wind 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?

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It just seems so appropriate, somehow. (Original Post) Prisoner_Number_Six Jun 2017 OP
My dear Prisoner_Number_Six... CaliforniaPeggy Jun 2017 #1
Hey- glad to see ya! Prisoner_Number_Six Jun 2017 #3
And I am glad to see YOU! CaliforniaPeggy Jun 2017 #4
Thank YOU for this .. furtheradu Jun 2017 #2

Prisoner_Number_Six

(15,676 posts)
3. Hey- glad to see ya!
Wed Jun 7, 2017, 04:36 PM
Jun 2017

Been having great fun doing some stuff- I plan to post about it soon.

Meanwhile, today I turn 62 years old. Party at my house (not)!

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