And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
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 conviction, 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, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; 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?
Smashing records? 😄
ReplyDeleteLooks like someone just broke a record. No big deal. It happens a lot in the Olympic Games.
ReplyDeleteIt's what happens when you are spun up beyond your ability to stay together. Getting dizzy yet from the news?
ReplyDeleteZoom in and it's Brenda Lee's Christmas album, 1st song is "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree".
ReplyDeleteIn that case, I heartily approve.
DeleteI was hoping that it was Barry Manilow or Bruce Springsteen......
Delete78 RPM, not 78 RPS!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteUnknown, haha
ReplyDeleteI believe that is the Star Spangled Banner played backwards for Biden's fake inauguration as America braces for impact......
ReplyDeletemetaphor:
ReplyDeleteAOC and the rest of the Squad, including Nancy Pelosi have just broken all records of mental illness in DC
A platter that matters splattered!
ReplyDeleteTurning and turning in the widening gyre
ReplyDeleteThe 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 conviction, 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,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; 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?
Yeats was a darn good poet.
DeleteSomeone needs to call the spin doctor.
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