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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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And faith fair scorn doth gain.

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Sir Philip Sidney·1554–1586
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rom so ungrateful! fancie, From such a female franzie, From them that use men thus, Good Lord, deliver us. And then, as he learnt more details of what hadhappened, in lines, whose very metre is full of stub-bornness : — For me, alas, I am full resolv'd, Those bands, alas, shall not be dissolved. Nor break my word, though reward com late. Nor fail my faith in my failing fate, Nor change in change, though change change my state.
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