TURNING And Turning In The Widening Gyre The Falcon Cannot Hear The Falconer

Falconry Book of The Holy Roman EmperorFrederick II

The Second Coming

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?
William Butler Yeats (1920)

The falcon-falconer metaphor confirms that modern men are moving further and further away from the Authority of the Holy Roman Emperor. Now that the Office of the Emperor remains vacant the people (or falcon if you will) cannot hear the authority given to best govern them. Modern men (falcon) have lost the guidance needed and are not properly governed by the Holy Roman Emperor (falconer). The falcon needs a master for proper order just as the world needs proper authority to guide it towards the final end. The falcon and modern men are spinning out of control in an ever widening gyre. If ever there was a modern day poem written to fill the imagination of the horrible conflict to come between the modern day democracy usurper of office of the Holy Roman Emperor and the return of this Divinely Ordained Authority or The Second Coming it is The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats. This Poem belongs to the restoration of the Divinely Ordained Office of the Holy Roman Emperor. William Butler Yeats will be counted along with Dante Alighieri as a prophet of the Restoration to come.