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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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E.E. Cummings·1894–1962·surrealism
obody wears a yellowflower in his buttonholehe is altogether a queer fellowas young as he is old when autumn comes,who twiddles his white thumbsand frisks down the boulevards without his coat and hat --(and i wonder just why thatshould please him or i wonder what he does) and why(at the bottom of this trunk,under some dirty collars)only amoment(orwas it perhaps a year)ago i found staring me in the face a dead yellow small rose