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Again in honor to the inspiration for my nickname, here's the last verse of one of W.B. Yeats' best known poems. It's one of those 'translate into Perl' poems - as such it compiles and runs (though not under strict).

# 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?
#
# The Second Coming
# W.B. Yeats

use constant { CENTURY => 3153600000 };

package stone;

sub sleep (;$) {
  &CORE::sleep(shift);
}

package Cradle::Rocking;

sub vex {};

package Yeats;


Cradle::Rocking::vex( dest => 'Nightmare',
                      subject => sub {
                                 stone::sleep CENTURY 
                                 for (0 .. 19)
                                 } );

my %beasts;
$beasts{'rough'} = [{ dest => 'Eire', mode => 'course', hour => 1 },
                    { dest => 'Innisfree', mode => 'amble', hour => 2}
+,
                    { dest => 'Bethlehem', mode => 'slouch', hour => 3
+},
                   ];
(my $beast) = grep { $_->{dest} eq 'Bethlehem' &&
                     $_->{mode} eq 'slouch'
                   }
              @{$beasts{'rough'}};

while ('Eternity') {
  last if (((localtime(time))[2] == $beast->{hour}));
}

bless $beast, 'Life';
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In reply to Yeats - The Second Coming by robartes

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