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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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Seamus Heaney·1939–2013
ake whatever accommodation his personal love ofregularity requires and still find the driving 4-beatmeasure. The following two passages will serve to show some-thing of the different effects of these poems: He looks natural,He smiles well, he smells of the future,Odourless ages, an ordered worldOf planned pleasures and passport-control,Sentry-go, sedatives, soft drinks andManaged money, a moral planetTamed by terror: his telegram setsGrey masses moving as the mud dries.Many have perished; more will. (The Age of Anxiety.)