Lines Stolen from M and YThe bourgeois epoch.In the widening gyre, Turning and turning Constant revolution, Uninterrupted disturbance, Everlasting uncertainty and agitation Distinguish The bourgeois epoch. The falcon Cannot hear the falconer; All fixed, Fast-frozen relations, With their train of ancient and venerable Prejudices and opinions, Are swept away, Things fall apart; The center cannot hold; The bourgeois epoch. All new-formed Relations become Antiquated Before They can ossify. The blood-dimmed tide Is loosed, And everywhere All that is solid melts into air, All that is holy is profaned, The ceremony of innocence Is drowned; and man Is at last compelled To face, with sober senses, His real conditions of life. The best lack all convictions, While the worst Are full Of passionate intensity In their relations with their kind. Surely some revelation, Some rough beast, Nothing to lose, Is at hand.
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