Endor Nim<p>The Second Coming by Yeats. A poem for our times (alas, again):</p><p>Turning and turning in the widening gyre <br>The falcon cannot hear the falconer;<br>Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;<br>Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,<br>The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere <br>The ceremony of innocence is drowned;<br>The best lack all conviction, while the worst <br>Are full of passionate intensity.</p><p>Surely some revelation is at hand;<br>Surely the Second Coming is at hand. <br>The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out <br>When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi<br>Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert <br>A shape with lion body and the head of a man, <br>A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, <br>Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it <br>Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. <br>The darkness drops again; but now I know <br>That twenty centuries of stony sleep<br>Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, <br>And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, <br>Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/war" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>war</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>putin</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/yeats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>yeats</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/netanyahu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>netanyahu</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/extremism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>extremism</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gaza</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a></p>