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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: 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 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?

Ah, but what second coming will be our destiny? 

Up down up down up down up down...........

Will we reach our historical heights or plumb our historical depths?

If the centre cannot hold, then..........?

But there again if..............then...........?

OTBC

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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: 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 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?

Ah, but what second coming will be our destiny? 

Up down up down up down up down...........

Will we reach our historical heights or plumb our historical depths?

If the centre cannot hold, then..........?

But there again if..............then...........?

OTBC

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Blimey BlyBly......rather a cultured post if I may say so!....[Y]

The only poem I know is about a girl with huge t**s..... and I might just post it now you''ve started off something intellectual......

Well done!

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[quote user="Cluck "][

The only poem I know is about a girl with huge t**s.....

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I know about the girl with huge toes[Y].... she had to go to the Caribbean to buy shoes[ap]...

Jamaica?[H]

No she went of her own accord...... [|-)]

You heard of her Bly [:^)] [;)]

 

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Apart from The Song of Wandering Aengus, I ''m not a big Yeats fan. I think Kipling''s more appropriate  ...


IF.....



IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don''t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don''t give way to hating,
And yet don''t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you''ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ''em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ''Hold on!''

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
'' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds'' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that''s in it,
And - which is more - you''ll be a Man, my son!



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A little from J M Synge a fellow irish man


Beside a chapel I''d a room looked down,
Where all the women from the farms and town,
On Holy-days, and Sundays used to pass
To marriages, and Christenings and to Mass.

Then I sat lonely watching score and score,
Till I turned jealous of the Lord next door--
Now by this window, where there''s none can see,
The Lord God''s jealous of yourself and me.


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there was a young man from Swaffham,

who took out his eye-balls to wash em,

His wife said "dear Jack if u dont put em back"

"i''ll sit on the damn things and squash em!"

:D

 

jas :)

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I think this sums up a few people on here!

 

 

 

Eternal faith separates those that doubt

Positive thinking but not without

realism that things can fail

but knowledge that your belief will prevail

for belief is there to show you are real

your strength, your love, your hopes and steel

for those that wilt, hide and are not deep

can never be called strong for they are sheep

following a flock for they have no plan,

they may as well be a Man U fan

only in it for glory and face

the real man has much more grace

 

 

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