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The Second Coming

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Poem by William Butler Yeats depicting the collapse of civilization and the birth of a rough beast slouching towards Bethlehem

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"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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