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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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noun

One who, or that which, accelerates.

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XXXVII.

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Edmund Spenser·1552–1599
y this her Damzells, which the formerchaceHad undertaken after her, arryv’d,As did Belpheebe, in the bloody place,And thereby deemd the beast had benedepriv’dOf life, whom late their ladies arrow ryv’d:Forthy the bloody tract they followdfast,And every one to ronne the swifteststryv’d;But two of them the rest far overpasi,And where their Lady was arrived at theast.XXXVIII. Where when they saw that goodly boywith bloodDefowled, and their Lady dresse hiswownd,They wondred much; and shortly under-stoodHow him in deadly case theyr Lady fownd,