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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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FANCY DRESS

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Siegfried Sassoon·1886–1967
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ome Brave, awake in you to-night,Knocked at your heart: an eagle's flightStirred in the feather on your head.Your wide-set Indian eyes, alightAbove high cheek-bones smeared with red,Unveiled cragg'd centuries, and ledYou, the snared wraith of bygone things--Wild ancestries of trackless Kings--Out of the past.... So men have feltStrange anger move them as they kneltPraying to gods serenely starredIn heavens where tomahawks are barred.
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