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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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Then the Porcupine again spoke out of his wisdom

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Elizabeth Bishop·1911–1979
In the beginning of winter all the animals, largeand small, and those that creep upon the ground, shallgo into their dens and hide themselves for six months.”Thus spoke Porcupine to all the large animals andthey all agreed to what he had proposed. Then all went joyfully to their homes, and thus it