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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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And cracking his timber bones !

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ust then, at speed on the Foe, With her bow all weathered and brown, The great Lackawana came down,Full tilt, for another blow ;We were forging ahead, She reversed — but, for all our pains,Rammed the old Hartford, instead,