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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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Coyote said to himself as he went east: “I am

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Elizabeth Bishop·1911–1979
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eally it was snow that was melting, and the watercame dripping down on Coyote’s face. Coyote stood there and looked all around. Frost hadgone off to the west and was no more to be seen. Coyote looked back at his bow. He looked back athis flints and arrows. No arrows were to be seen, andno bow was to be seen. They had all melted away. Heput his hand on his head, and felt around on his headfor his white feathers, but the white feathers were nomore. 4.4 COYOTE’S DECEPTION BY FROST Coyote stood thinking. “ You had good sense, young“rost! I thought indeed they were real white feathers,”said Coyote; “that is why I changed with you. Youwad good sense.” He went on east with nothing, now; without bow,nd without white feathers. Frost’s feathers did not melt, nor his bows and ar- /Ows.Coyote now went off home.
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