W.B. Yeats’ The Second Coming: Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze…
From bitter searchings of the heart…this has to be the most profound piece of poetry for hope of the Millennium ever written since the Prophet Isaiah. This poem by Canadian poet Frank Scott ((Scott, was a constitutional lawyer, former Dean of McGill University, but also an influential poet and Canadian social thinker))…