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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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THE CAPTIVITY.

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Oliver Goldsmith·1728–1774
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