Twas brillig and the slythy toves
did gyre and gimble in the wabe
All mimsy were the borogoves
And the mome-wraths outgrabe

Lewis Carroll
"Jabberwocky"







TURNING and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

William Butler Yeats
"The Second Coming"







Big wheel keep on turnin’
Ooh, the Proud Mary keep on burnin’
And we’re rollin’ [Rollin’], rollin’, yeah [Rollin’]
Rollin’ on a river [Roller on the river]
Said we’re rollin’ [Rollin’], rollin’ [Rollin’]
Rollin’ on a river [Roller on the river]

performed by Ike & Tina Turner
written by J.C.Fogerty






And the seasons they go round and round And the painted ponies go up and down We're captive on the carousel of time We can't return we can only look behind From where we came And go round and round and round In the circle game.

Joni Mitchell
1966 Siquomb Publishing Co. BMI