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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 30 (Fire And Ice)

14 lines
Edmund Spenser·1552–1599
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y love is like to ice, and I to fire:how comes it then that this her cold so greatis not dissolv'd through my so hot desire,but harder grows, the more I her entreat? Or how comes it that my exceeding heatis not delayed by her heart frozen cold,but that I burn much more in boiling sweat,and feel my flames augmented manifold? What more miraculous thing may be toldthat fire, which all thing melts, should harden ice:and ice which is congealed with senseless cold,should kindle fire by wonderful device? Such is the pow'r of love in gentle mindthat it can alter all the course of kind.
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