<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">The Second Coming<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Turning and turning on the widening gyre,</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">The falcon cannot hear the falconer;</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">The ceremony of innocence is drowned;</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">The best lack all conviction, while the worst</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Are full of passionate intensity.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Surely some revelation is at hand;</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Surely the Second Coming is at hand.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">When a vast image out of <i class="">Spiritus Mundi</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Troubles my sight: Somewhere in the sands of the desert</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">A shape with a lion body and the head of a man,</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">The darkness drops again, but now I know </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">That twenty centuries of stony sleep </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- William Butler Yeats</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
<div class=""><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">“Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.”</div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Wendell Berry</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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