Were Vexed To Nightmare By A Rocking Cradle And What Rough Beast Its Hour Come Round At Last Slouches Towards Bethlehem To Be Born W B Yeats Wallpaper Collections

Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?-W.B. Yeats

Slouching towards Bethlehem

98:365 - "...what rough beast, its hour come round at last, / slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"

Crooked on Kildare Street

Slouching towards Bethlehem

"The Second Coming" by W B Yeats (1865-1939)

Masked bird of prey immortalized in stone

The Widening Gyre

the second coming

101. Slouching Towards Palestine

...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? -- W.B. Yeats