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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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XXXII.

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John Dryden·1631–1700
he son, who, twice three months on th’ oceantoss'd,Prepared to tell what he had pass’d before, 1Now sees in English ships the Holland coast,And parents’ arms, in vain, stretch’d from thoshore.XXXIV.This careful husband had been long away,Whom his chaste wife and little childrenmourn ;Who on their fingers learn’d to tell the day 1On which their father promised to return.