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William Blake

Does the Eagle know what is in the pit?

Or wilt thou go ask the Mole:

Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod?

Or Love in a golden bowl?

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noun

One who, or that which, accelerates.

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1 Pronounced Breedon.

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A.E. Housman·1859–1936
Shropshire Lad But when the snows at ChristmasOn Bredon top were strown,My love rose up so earlyAnd stole out unbeknownAnd went to church alone. They tolled the one bell only,Groom there was none to see, The mourners followed after,And so to church went she,And would not wait for me. The bells they sound on Bredon,And still the steeples hum. ‘Come all to church, good people,’ —Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come. 36 A Shropshire Lad