Two poems that feel especially apt
One from the ruins of World War I, the other from the gathering storm of World War II
Friends,
Today I’d like to share two poems with you. The first was written in the ruins of World War I; the second, in the gathering storm of World War II. To me, both feel appropriate to the dark time we’re now living in.
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The Second Coming
William Butler Yeats (1919)
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Th…
