THE CAPTIVITY.
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Ye hills of Lebanon, with cedars crown’d_ 69 _Fierce is the tempest rolling along the furrow’d main_ 74 _As panting flies the hunted hind, where brooks refreshing stray_ 80 _O Babylon! how art thou fall’n_ 83
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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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