Second Coming

See, they return; ah, see the tentative
Movements, and the slow feet,
The trouble in the pace and the uncertain
Wavering!
See, they return, one, and by one,
With fear, as half-awakened;
As if the snow should hesitate
And murmer in the wind, and half turn back;
These were the 'Wing'd-with-Awe',
Inviolable.

Gods of the wing-ed shoe!
With them the silver hounds sniffing the trace of air!

Haie! Haie!
These were the swift to harry;
These were the keen-scented;
These were the souls of blood.

Slow on the leash, pallid leash-men!
[E. Pound, The Return, 1912]

'Wing'd-with-Awe' here suggests Zeus as Eagle as we have been discussing in relation to Prometheus. The imagery of eagle and vulture is accompanied by Yeats' use of the Falcon in his Second Coming, brings out this bird's significance.

Could we say;

Horus as Falcon
Zeus as Eagle
Prometheus as Vulture.
All signifying aspects of the Aeon.

The facloner is sitting on
His summer sand at dawn
Unlocking flooded silver cages
And with a silver din arise
All the lovely faces
And the lovely silver traces erase
My empty pages.
[Nico, The Falconer, from 'Desertshore']

It is very significant that from the occult/alchemical perspective, Yeats calls Nietzsche;
"That strong enchanter", and says that;
"Nietzsche completes Blake and has the same roots".

Such signposts are invaluable.

It is also important that the upside-down triangle/cone is seen as symbolising egalitarianism where the Few are over-shadowed and crushed by the wide 'base' which now becomes the 'top'.

Also, Yeats talk of a Druidism recalls not only Blake as he says, but also John Dee.