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How could Yeats have known
The second coming
Eighty-five plus years
Down that distant road?
How could Eliot have seen
The waste land
Just a ways ahead
Around that twisted bend?
What prophet seeded
The words they wrote?
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The message of their verses?
What oracle prompted
The way they spoke?
What shifting phantom
Touched their sleep with curses?
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The meanings
Of their time
Between
The letters
Of their rhyme
Stood the truth
Of a hoary beast
Waiting patiently
To be unleashed
Upon sad Jerusalem
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