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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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On a young huntsman keen to show some sport.

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Siegfried Sassoon·1886–1967
y, Hell was thick with captains, and I rodeThe lumbering brute that’s beat in half a mile,And blunders into every blind old ditch. Hell was the coldest scenting land I’ve known,“And both my whips were always lost, and houndsWould never get their heads down; and a manOn a great yawing chestnut trying to cast emWhile I was in a corner pounded by