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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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There himselfe with his shot he close doth lay.

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Sir Philip Sidney·1554–1586
\rk^ "* i Poore passenger, passe now thereby I did,' And staid, pleas'd with the prospect of the place,While that blacke hue from me the bad guest hid : J f But straight I saw motions of lightning grace ; *! And then descried the glistring of his dart :LBut ere I could flie thence, it pierc'd my heart.