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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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Into a savage color he went on.

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Wallace Stevens·1879–1955
ow greatly had he grown in his demesne, This auditor of insects! He that sawThe stride of vanishing autumn in a parkBy way of decorous melancholy; heThat wrote his couplet yearly to the spring, As dissertation of profound delight, Stopping, on voyage, in a land of snakes,