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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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Sonorous nutshells rattling inwardly.

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Wallace Stevens·1879–1955
is violence was for aggrandizementAnd not for stupor, such as music makesFor sleepers halfway waking. He perceivedThat coolness for his heat came suddenly, And only, in the fables that he scrawledWith his own quill, in its indigenous dew, Of an aesthetic tough, diverse, untamed,Incredible to prudes, the mint of dirt,