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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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40. The 1st ed. has "Not all that strikes," etc.

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Thomas Gray·1716–1771
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2. _Nor all that glisters gold_. A favourite proverb with the oldEnglish poets. Cf. Chaucer, _C. T._ 16430: "But all thing which that shineth as the goldNe is no gold, as I have herd it told;" Spenser, _F. Q._ ii. 8, 14: "Yet gold all is not, that doth golden seeme;"
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