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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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This world’s a funny place to live in. Soon

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Siegfried Sassoon·1886–1967
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'll need to change my country; but I know Tis little enough I’ve understood my life, And a power of sights I’ve missed, and foreignmarvels. I used to feel it, riding on spring days In meadows pied with sun and chasing clouds,And half forget how I was there to catch The foxes; lose the angry, eager feeling A huntsman ought to have, that’s out for blood,And means his hounds to get it! Now I knowIt’s God that speaks to us when we’re bewitched,Smelling the hay in June and smiling quiet;Or when there’s been a spell of summer drought,Lying awake and listening to the rain.
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