"Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales, awake; For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take."
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Poem Heraclitus.
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William Johnson Cory
William Johnson Cory (9 January 1823 – 11 June 1892) was a British educator and poet.
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