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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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One who, or that which, accelerates.

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The 32d and last stanza is as follows:

29 lines
Thomas Gray·1716–1771
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No farther seek his merits to disclose,Nor seek to draw them from their dread abode--(His frailties there in trembling hope repose);The bosom of his Father and his God."[9] [Footnote 9: The above are all the variations from the present textin the Wrightson MS. which are noted by the authorities on whom wehave depended; but we suspect that the following readings, mentionedby Mitford as in the MS., belong to _that_ MS., as they are _not_found in the other: in the 7th stanza, "sickles" for "sickle;" in18th, "shrines" for "shrine." Two others (in stanzas 9th and 27th)are referred to in our account of the Pembroke MS. below.] The Pembroke MS. has the following variations from the presentversion: In the 1st stanza, "wind" for "winds." 2d stanza, "_Or_ drowsy," etc. 5th stanza, "_and_ the ecchoing horn." 6th stanza, "_Nor_ climb his knees." 9th stanza, "_Awaits_ alike." Probably this is also the reading ofthe Wrightson MS. Mitford gives it as noted by Mason, and it isretained by Gray in the ed. of 1768. The 10th stanza begins, "_Forgive_, ye Proud, _th' involuntary_ faultIf Memory _to these_," etc., the present readings ("Nor you," "impute to these," and "Mem'ry o'ertheir tomb") being inserted in the margin. The 12th stanza has "_reins_ of empire," with "rod" in the margin. In the 15th stanza, the word "lands" has been crossed out, and"fields" written above it. The 17th has "_Or_ shut the gates," etc.
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