What
rough beast?
“a
brazen winged beast which I associated with laughing, ecstatic
destruction" (W. B. Yeats on his poem, The Second Coming).
"The good want power, but
to weep barren tears.
The powerful goodness want:
worse need for them.
The wise want love, and those
who love want wisdom;
And all best things are thus
confused to ill."
~ Prometheus Unbound by P. B. Shelley
Lines
that most probably inspired:
“The best lack all conviction, while the
worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
In
any event,
“Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and
everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;”
Rome
fell and centuries of darkness followed. Will it take centuries, or at least one
lifetime, to see love, goodness, wisdom, peace prevail again?
