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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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XXXVI

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Edmund Spenser·1552–1599
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he drouping Night thus creepeth on them fast,And the sad humour[*] loading their eye liddes,As messenger of Morpheus[*] on them castSweet slombring deaw, the which to sleepe them biddes.Unto their lodgings then his guestes he riddes: 320Where when all drownd in deadly sleepe he findes,He to this study goes, and there amiddesHis Magick bookes and artes[*] of sundry kindes,He seekes out mighty charmes, to trouble sleepy mindes.
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