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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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XLI.

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Edmund Spenser·1552–1599
he fift had charge sick persons toattend,And comfort those in point of death whichlay ;For them most needeth comfort in the end,When a and hell, and death, doe mostdismaThe feeble soule departing hence away.All is but lost, that living we _ be-stow,If not well ended at our dying day. O man! have mind of that last bitterthrow ;For as the tree does fall, so lyes it everlow.XLII.The sixt had charge of them now beingdead, In seemely ’sort their corses to engrave,And deck with dainty flowres their bry- dall bed,