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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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The Truth of Woman

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Walter Scott·1771–1832·Romanticism
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oman's faith, and woman's trust -Write the characters in the dust;Stamp them on the running stream,Print them on the moon's pale beam,And each evanescent letterShall be clearer, firmer, better,And more permanent, I ween,Than the thing those letters mean. I have strain'd the spider's thread'Gainst the promise of a maid;I have weigh'd a grain of sand'Gainst her plight of heart and hand;I told my true love of the token,How her faith proved light, and her word was broken:Again her word and truth she plight,And I believed them again ere night.
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