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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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Spontaneously watering their gritty soils.

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Wallace Stevens·1879–1955
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am a yeoman, as such fellows go. I know no magic trees, no balmy boughs, No silver-ruddy, gold-vermilion fruits. But, after all, I know a tree that bearsA semblance to the thing I have in mind. It stands gigantic, with a certain tipTo which all birds come sometime in their time.
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