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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 75

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Edmund Spenser·1552–1599
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onnet LXXV ONE day I wrote her name upon the strand,but came the waves and washed it away:again I wrote it with a second hand,but came the tide, and made my pains his prey.Vain man, said she, that dost in vain assay,a mortal thing so to immortalize,for I myself shall like to this decay,and eke my name be wiped out likewise.Not so, (quod I) let baser things devise,to die in dust, but you shall live by fame:my verse your virtues rare shall eternize,and in the heavens write your glorious name.Where when as death shall all the world subdue,our love shall live, and later life renew.
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