Thursday, October 31, 2013

grrrrrrr....

 Feeling shitty- weather, and the fact that after busting my ass for several hours in service to a rented carpet cleaner, my carpets still look shitty. 

So, something dramatic for you





William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
   
  THE SECOND COMING
    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?

1 comment:

doubletrouble said...

"The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."

That is my favorite Yeats piece; I used to have the above line posted on my office wall.
About 1% of the people who saw it knew it's origin.