Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1991) by Joni Mitchell |
The Second Coming (1919) by William Butler Yeats |
Turning and turning Within the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer Things fall apart The center cannot hold And a blood dimmed tide Is loosed upon the world Nothing is sacred Surely some revelation is at hand Hoping and hoping Shaped like a lion Surely some revelation is at hand Raging and raging Surely some revelation is at hand |
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; |
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