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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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The measure of the intensity of love

8 lines
Wallace Stevens·1879–1955
9 Is measure, also, of the verve of earth. For me, the firefly’s quick, electric strokeTicks tediously the time of one more year.And you? Remember how the crickets cameOut of their mother grass, like little kin, In the pale nights, when your first imageryFound inklings of your bond to all that dust.