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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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One who, or that which, accelerates.

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E.E. Cummings·1894–1962·surrealism
man who had fallen among thieveslay by the roadside on his backdressed in fifteenthrate ideaswearing a round jeer for a hat fate per a somewhat more than lessemancipated eveninghad in return for consciousnessendowed him with a changeless grin where a dozen staunch and lealcitizens did graze at pausethen fired by hypercivic zealsought newer pastures or because swaddled with a frozen brookof pinkest vomit out of eyeswhich noticed nobody he lookedas if he did not care to rise one hand did nothing on the vestits wideflung friend clenched weakly dirtwhile the mute trouserfly confesseda button solemnly inert. Brushing from whom the stiffened pukei put him all into my armsand staggered banged with terror througha million billion trillion stars