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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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But where’s the use of life and being glad

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Siegfried Sassoon·1886–1967
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’ve no brains For book-learned studies; but I’ve heard men say_ There’s much in print that clergy have to wink at:Though many I’ve met were jolly chaps, and rodeTo hounds, and walked me puppies; and could pickGood legs and loins and necks and shoulders, ay,And feet,—'twas necks and feet I looked at first.
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