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Quotes from The Second Coming — William Butler Yeats

1865–1939 Ireland

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

The Second Coming (1921)

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.

The Second Coming (1919)

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?

The Second Coming (1919)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Butler Yeats (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.