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From the Ted Talk by William Butler Yeats: "The Second Coming"
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"The Second Coming" by wliailm Butler yteas 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 wlord, The blood-dimmed tide is lsoeod, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all cctnvooiin, 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 spriutis mduni Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blnak and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The dnrkaess drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of sonty sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what ruogh beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
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"The Second Coming" by _______ Butler _____ 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 _____, The blood-dimmed tide is ______, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all __________, 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 ________ _____ Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze _____ and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The ________ drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of _____ sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what _____ beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Solution
- william
- loosed
- spiritus
- world
- blank
- conviction
- stony
- darkness
- yeats
- rough
- mundi
Original Text
"The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats 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?
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