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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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Aware of exquisite thought. The storm was one

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Wallace Stevens·1879–1955
roclaiming something harsher than he learnedFrom hearing signboards whimper in cold nightsOr seeing the midsummer artificeOf heat upon his pane. This was the spanOf force, the quintessential fact, the noteOf Vulcan, that a valet seeks to own,