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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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The pale Lethean wine within thy chalices!

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Rupert Brooke·1887–1915·Bloomsbury Group
nd evil whispers in the gloom, or the swift whirrOf terrible wings—I, least of all thy votaries,With a faint hope to see the scented darkness stir, 40 And, parting, frame within its quiet mysteriesOne face, with lips than autumn-lilies tenderer,And voice more sweet than the far plaint of violsis,