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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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RECITATIVE.

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Oliver Goldsmith·1728–1774
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ut whence, when joy should brighten o’er the land,This sullen gloom in Judah’s captive band?Ye sons of Judah, why the lute unstrung?Or why those harps on yonder willows hung? 80Come, take the lyre, and pour the strain along,The day demands it; sing us Sion’s song.Dismiss your griefs, and join our warbling choir,For who like you can wake the sleeping lyre?
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