To wish Myself Courage
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n the day when youth is no more upon meI will write of the leaves and the moon in a tree top!I will sing then the song, long in the making--When the stress of youth is put away from me.
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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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