THE SECOND COMING – William Butler Yeats
“The Second Coming” is a poem written by Irish poet W. B. Yeats in 1919, first printed in The Dial in November 1920, and afterward included in his 1921 collection of verses Michael Robartes and the Dancer.
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WHAT ROUGH BEAST SLOUCHES TOWARDS BETHLEHEM TO BE BORN? – Marilyn Armstrong 
SERENDIPITY - SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 
I’ve always, ALWAYS loved those last two lines:
“And what rough beast, it’s hour come round at last
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?” Something so pitiless about that.
I’ve never considered what should be on my stone, I best get on that. My siblings are not literary minded. They read, (to me) dull tomes full of things about uninteresting people who’ve gained power and lost it or not. But. As long as my epitaph contains something about dogs, I’m good I suppose.
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I wonder if he was the one who wanted that on his tomb stone?
Leslie
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He was a pretty sure-footed author and he more or less ran the writing crowd — so my guess is yes. What Yeats wanted, Yeats got.
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Way to go Yeats…I think I’ll start planning my epitaph.
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This keeps seeming eerily relevant. Maybe it’s just me?
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