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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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Sir Philip Sidney·1554–1586
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NTRODUCTION, xxxix any literary value. Some day I tope we shall have athree-text Astropkel and SteAisy^ I doubt if anycollation short of this will be ultimately accepted assatisfactory. The portrait of Sidney, which forms thefrontispiece, is reproduced by Mr. Prsetorius, fromthe copy in the British Museum of the engravingof his funeral by Thomas Lant. I have still to addthat among my predecessors in Sidney-work, my chiefobligations are due to Mr. Fox-Bourne, without whoselife of Sidney it would have been impossible for me togather together all the facts on which I have basedthis introduction. Other debts have been acknow-ledged as they occur.
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