The Second Coming

What is the allusion to Bethlehem?

This is a poem written by William Butler Yeats, written in 1919.

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The darkness drops again; but now I know That 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?
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