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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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XVI.

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Edmund Spenser·1552–1599
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ike as ye see the wrathfull sea from farreIn a great mountaine heap’t with hideous noyse,Eftsoones of thousand billowes shouldred narre*,Against a rocke to breake with dreadfull poyse;Like as ye see fell Boreas with sharpe blastTossing huge tempests through the troubled skie,Eftsoones having his wide wings spent in wast,To stop his wearie cariere** suddenly;And as ye see huge flames spred diverslie,Gathered in one up to the heavens to spyre,Eftsoones consum’d to fall downe feebily,So whilom did this monarchie aspyreAs waves, as winde, as fire, spred over all,Till it by fatall doome adowne did fall.[* _Narre_, nearer.][** _Cariere_, career.]
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