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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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SURVIVORS

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Siegfried Sassoon·1886–1967
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o doubt they'll soon get well; the shock and strainHave caused their stammering, disconnected talk.Of course they're "longing to go out again,"--These boys with old, scared faces, learning to walk,They'll soon forget their haunted nights; their cowedSubjection to the ghosts of friends who died,--Their dreams that drip with murder; and they'll be proudOf glorious war that shatter'd all their pride ...Men who went out to battle, grim and glad;Children, with eyes that hate you, broken and mad. CRAIGLOCKHART,Oct. 1917.
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