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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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70. Ovid, _Met._ viii. 162, describes the Mæander thus:

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Thomas Gray·1716–1771
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Non secus ac liquidis Phrygiis Maeandros in arvisLudit, et ambiguo lapsu refluitque fluitque." Cf. also Virgil's description of the Mincius (_Geo._ iii. 15): --"tardis ingens ubi flexibus erratMincius." "The first great metropolis of Hellenic intellectual life was Miletuson the Mæander. Thales, Anaximander, Anaximines, Cadmus, Hecatæus,etc., were all Milesians" (Hales). 71 foll. Cf. Milton, _Hymn on Nativ._ 181: "The lonely mountains o'er,And the resounding shore,A voice of weeping heard and loud lament;From haunted spring and dale,Edged with poplar pale,The parting Genius is with sighing sent:" etc. 75. _Hallowed fountain_. Cf. Virgil, _Ecl._ i. 53: "fontes sacros."
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