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? --- William Butler Yeats, 'The Second Coming'
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ReplyDeleteThe darkness drops again but now I know
ReplyDeleteThat 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? --- William Butler Yeats, 'The Second Coming'