Poems of W.B. Yeats: The Rose

How long has the baby Jesus been asleep in the cradle?

The Second Coming by WB Yeats

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I think that would be twenty centuries.

I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,

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