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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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XXXVII

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E.E. Cummings·1894–1962·surrealism
oets yeggs and thirsties since we are spanked and put to sleep by dolls letus not be continually astonished shouldfrom their actions and speechessawdust perpetually leak rather is it between such beddings andbumpings of ourselves to be observedhow in this fundamental respect the wellrecognised regime of childhood is reversed meantime in dreams let us investigatethoroughly each one his optima rerum firsthaving taken care to lie upon ourabdomens for greater privacy and lest punished bottoms interrupt philosophy