The Second Coming
“The Second Coming" is a poem written by Irish poet W. B. Yeats in 1919”
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.
Yeats poem sounds familiar while written as the 1919 flu ravages We repeat our sins our glorious moments of triumph and start a new age that makes and takes lives With no less than a deaf and dumb shepherd who outrageous us all we live on shaken ground to the taunts of retaliation Change comes and go as we do but do we change
Joni Mitchell - Slouching Towards Bethlehem
poem distributed source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second_Coming_(poem)
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