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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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Approaching like a gasconade of drums.

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Wallace Stevens·1879–1955
he white cabildo darkened, the facade, As sullen as the sky, was swallowed upIn swift, successive shadows, dolefully. The rumbling broadened as it fell. The wind,Tempestuous clarion, with heavy cry, Came bluntly thundering, more terribleThan the revenge of music on bassoons. Gesticulating lightning, mystical, Made pallid flitter. Crispin, here, took flight. An annotator has his scruples, too. He knelt in the cathedral with the rest, This connoisseur of elemental fate,