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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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Heere cease more quesuons.

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John Berryman·1914–1972
hou art inclinde to sleepe, ’tis a good dulnesse, And giue it way* I know thou canst not chuse . . . In the slowing of the final phrase we hear Miranda succumb; we feelthe spell as red. The solemnity is executive. Majesty, activity. Another feature of Prosperous speech worthsignalizing is nakedly its power. Consider some lines from his finaladjuration to his spirits— by whose ayde (Weake Masters though ye be) I haue bedymn’dThe Noone-tide Sun, call’d forth the mutenous windes,