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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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VII.

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Walter Scott·1771–1832·Romanticism
ut Marmion, as to chase the aweWhich thus had quelled their hearts, who sawThe ever-varying firelight showThat figure stern and face of woe,Now called upon a squire:“Fitz-Eustace, know’st thou not some lay,To speed the lingering night away?We slumber by the fire.”