Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot he... - W.B. Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

"Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe 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 everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity."

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