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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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Before J travelled my road I was my road.

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W.S. Merwin·1927–2019
found the whole of my first world in my meagerbread, My father, when he went, made my childhood agift of half a century. Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all therest, is brevity, extreme brevity. Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the formof self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, wewould see nothing, and nothing would exist. u