To wash the lips of our dead.
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league from the Fort we lay, And deemed that the end must lag ; When lo ! looking down the Bay,There flaunted the Rebel Rag —42
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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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