Second Coming - Disguise

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 convictions, 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.

Le lente cosce avanza, mentre intorno volan l’ombre infuriate di uccelli del

deserto.

Di nuovo cala il buio.

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?