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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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The prize was givento the Eagle

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Elizabeth Bishop·1911–1979
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THE LINNET AND THE EAGLEOR is be waeY ‘iw birds met together one day to try which couldfly the highest. Some flew up, very swift, but soorbecame tired and were passed by others of stronger wing. 40 “THE LINNET AND THE EAGLE The eagle went up beyond them all, and was ready2 claim the victory when the gray linnet, a very smalleird, flew from the eagle’s back, where it had perchedenperceived, and being fresh and unexhausted suc-eeded in going higher still.
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