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This resource relating to Micah 5:2-5 provides a poem by W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) highlighting the second coming and a poem and song by Bill Mallonee highlighting God's presence.
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
Micah 5:2-5a
CLASSIC POEM:
The Second Coming
William Butler Yeats
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The 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 everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
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 blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; 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?
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
On to Bethlehem
Bill Mallonee
SNIPPET:
you might surmise that i ran there
but i really only crept
lead me to the place where love runs wild
and then it dogs your every step
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[ READ THE FULL SONG ]
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Micah 5:2-5
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RCL Lectionary Week:
Year C Fourth Sunday of Advent
Date:
Monday, December 16, 2024