For anyone who has never read the poem, or would like to read it again, here is a copy of the poem for your convenience:
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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