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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 mules that angels ride come slowly down

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Wallace Stevens·1879–1955
hese muleteers are dainty of their way.Meantime, centurions guffaw and beatTheir shrilling tankards on the table-boards.This parable, in sense, amounts to this: The honey of heaven may or may not come,But that of earth both comes and goes at once. 30