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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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This much premised we begin to turn over the

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Sir Philip Sidney·1554–1586
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eaves of the Sonnets. Confining our attention at the outset to the first thirty, we note that no less j|than six (i., iii., vi., xv., xix., xxviii.) of these might § fairly be entitled " How to write Love Sonnets".; 1 five_others (viLy_ix^y^3 oc.> xxvi^ j^xxbcjarein praise jo f Stella^s beauty^ a the me -to-whieh-Jia^the. later Sonnets Sidney- retutns~" with strange infrequency; another six (viii., xi.; xii., xiii., xviL, xx.) are playful addresses to Cupid ; three (xxiii., xxvii., xxx.) are on the wearisome intruders on his love-dreams;
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