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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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ON SEEING A BUST OF MRS MONTAGUE.

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Thomas Gray·1716–1771
ad this fair figure which this frame displays,Adorn'd in Roman time the brightest days,In every dome, in every sacred place,Her statue would have breathed an added grace,And on its basis would have been enroll'd,'This is Minerva, cast in Virtue's mould.' * * * * *