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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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And general lexicographer of mute

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Wallace Stevens·1879–1955
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nd maidenly greenhorns, now beheld himself, A skinny sailor peering in the sea-glass. What word split up in dickering syllablesAnd storming under multitudinous tonesWas name for this short-shanks in all that brunt?Crispin was washed away by magnitude.
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