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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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Enfin ils sont assis! Or le père commande

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Ezra Pound·1885–1972
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t, dans le ciel couleur de turquoises fanées,Il voit les songes bleus qu'en ses esprits flottantA fait naître l'ampleur des truites saumonées. All through this introduction I am giving the sort of French poem leastlikely to have been worn smooth for us; I mean the kind of poem leastrepresented in English. Landor and Swinburne have, I think, forestalledTailhade's hellenic poems in our affections. There are also his balladesto be considered.
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