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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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III.

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Robert Lowell·1917–1977
ll crumbled rays the sun had thrown away ;And, floating thick on the night’s dewy tide,Came smells more sweet than scents of burn- ing day ; .And then a voice, — as fairAs all the best things there, —Scarce startling him; old, gentle, sweet, and sad as they :—