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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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Sonnet 29

15 lines
Edmund Spenser·1552–1599
onnet XXIX See how the stubborne damzell doth deprauemy simple meaning with disdaynfull scorne:and by the bay which I vnto her gaue,accoumpts my selfe her captiue quite forlorne.The bay (quoth she) is of the victours borne,yielded them by the vanquisht as theyr meeds,and they therewith doe poetes heads adorne,to sing the glory of their famous deedes.But sith she will the conquest challeng needslet her accept me as her faithfull thrall,that her great triumph which my skill exceeds,I may in trump of fame blaze ouer all.Then would I decke her head with glorious bayes,and fill the world with her victorious prayse.