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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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To keepe the place of their first loving state

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Sir Philip Sidney·1554–1586
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he boy refusde for feare of Marses hate, ■'- Who threatned stripes, if he his wrath did prove ; But she, in chafe, him from her lap did shove, - * . > ; f ;. . - - Brake bowe, brake shafts, while Cupid weeping sate ; Till that his grandame Nature, pittying it, « \a^^ ■• * ' Of Stella's browes made him two better bowes,-^ "
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