Friday, December 02, 2005

its hour come round at last

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?


-- W.B. Yeats: The Second Coming

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