[lit-ideas] Re: End of Times
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 13:56:47 -0700 (PDT)
Speaking of Yeats:
INTO THE TWILIGHT
OUT-WORN heart, in a time out-worn,
Come clear of the nets of wrong and right;
Laugh, heart, again in the grey twilight,
Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn.
Your mother Eire is always young,
Dew ever shining and twilight grey;
Though hope fall from you and love decay,
Burning in fires of a slanderous tongue.
Come, heart, where hill is heaped upon hill:
For there the mystical brotherhood
Of sun and moon and hollow and wood
And river and stream work out their will;
And God stands winding His lonely horn,
And time and the world are ever in flight;
And love is less kind than the grey twilight,
And hope is less dear than the dew of the morn.
--- John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yeats seems even more prescient now than when the
> poem was written.
> Thanks, Helen.
>
> John
>
> On 7/23/06, Helen Wishart <hwishart@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > The Second Coming
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> > 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; somewhere in sands of the
> desert
> > 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
> > Reel shadows of 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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> > January 1919
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> > W.B. Yeats
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> > From: lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > On Behalf Of Andy Amago
> > Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 1:54 AM
> > To: lit-ideas
> > Subject: [lit-ideas] End of Times
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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-endtimes22jun22,0,5277604,full.story?coll=la-headlines-california
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> --
> John McCreery
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