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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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23 Januarie, 1589.

21 lines
Edmund Spenser·1552–1599
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1] The letter served as an introduction to the first three books of the_Faerie Queene_. [2] An allusion to Sir Walter Raleigh's poem _Cynthia_. * * * * * _To the Right Noble and Valorous Knight_, SIR WALTER RALEIGH, _Lord Wardein of the Stanneryes, and Lieftenaunt of Cornewaile_, To thee that art the sommers Nightingale,Thy soveraigne Goddesses most deare delight,Why doe I send this rustick Madrigale,That may thy tunefull eare unseason quite?Thou onely fit this argument to writeIn whose high thoughts Pleasure hath built her bowre,And dainty Love learnd sweetly to endite.My rimes I know unsavory and sowre,To taste the streames, that, like a golden showre,Flow from thy fruitfull head, of thy Loves praise;Fitter perhaps to thunder martiall stowre,When so thee list thy loftie Muse to raise:Yet, till that thou thy poeme wilt make knowne,Let thy faire Cinthias praises be thus rudely showne.
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