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Quotation from The Second Coming by W. B. Yeats
“And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”
The Second Coming, Lines 21-22 (Michael Robartes and the Dancer (Cuala Press, 1920))
The closing question, inverting the birth at Bethlehem into the birth of a beast.
Citation: "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?" — W. B. Yeats, The Second Coming, Lines 21-22 (Michael Robartes and the Dancer (Cuala Press, 1920)). (id the-second-coming-q5)
Portrait: Yeats1923, Unknown, Public domain.
