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The Second Coming (an excerpt)
W. B. Yeats![A horizontal poster with a colorful mosaic at the top features an excerpt from the poem, The Second Coming, by W.B. Yeats](https://poetrysociety.org/assets/poetry-in-motion/William-Butler-Yeats-Second-Coming-NYC-Poetry-in-Motion.jpg)
The Second Coming (an excerpt)
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.
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