Poems of W.B. Yeats: The Rose

What are the smaller desert birds like?

The Second Coming (written in the year 1919, after the First World War)

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The desert birds are indignant or annoyed.

Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.

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The Second Coming

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