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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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Crispin foresaw a curious promenade

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Wallace Stevens·1879–1955
nd elemental potencies and pangs, And beautiful barenesses as yet unseen, Making the most of savagery of palms, Of moonlight on the thick, cadaverous bloomThat yuccas breed, and of the panther's tread.The fabulous and its intrinsic verseCame like two spirits parleying, adornedIn radiance from the Atlantic coign,