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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYeats, sort of---
The darkness drops again, but now I know
That forty years of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by an escalator
And, what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouched toward Washington to be born.
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Atticus
Sep 2019
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dawg day
(7,947 posts)1. What rough beast....
I think it's named "Retribution."
lame54
(39,317 posts)2. Looks like Nostradamous
muriel_volestrangler
(105,834 posts)3. this is the 3rd time in 2 hours this poem has come up for me
in completely unrelated contexts. Weird.
yonder
(10,264 posts)4. I like it. You can call it "The 45th Coming"
WBY might agree.
