The second stanza describes a creature with "gaze blank and pitiless as the sun" whose "twenty centuries  of stony sleep were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle".
The second stanza describes a creature with "gaze blank and pitiless as the sun" whose "twenty centuries  of stony sleep were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle". While the first stanza describes how "mere  anarchy is loosed upon the world" when "the falcon cannot hear the falconer", and "the best lack all  conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity". FTP, the phrases "Slouching towards  Bethlehem" and "things fall apart" originate in what poem by William Butler Yeats that describes an event  foretold by the Book of Revelation?
The second stanza describes a creature with "gaze blank and pitiless as the sun" whose "twenty centuries  of stony sleep were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle".
“The Second Coming”