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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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49. Hurd quotes Cowley:

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Thomas Gray·1716–1771
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Night and her ugly subjects thou dost fright,And Sleep, the lazy owl of night;Asham'd and fearful to appear,They screen their horrid shapes with the black hemisphere." Wakefield cites Milton, _Hymn on Nativity_, 233 foll.: "The flockingshadows pale," etc. See also _P. R._ iv. 419-431. 50. _Birds of boding cry_. Cf. Green's _Grotto_: "news the bodingnight-birds tell."
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