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All beauteous things for which we live By laws of space and time decay. But Oh, the very reason why I clasp them, is because they die.
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Jolly boating weather,
And a hay harvest breeze...
Swing, swing together
With your body between your knees.
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They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead,
They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed.
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Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales, awake;
For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take.
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He is one of those who like the palm without the dust.
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Nothing in life shall sever
The chain that is round us now.
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Charles Babbage
William Johnson Cory
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Born:
January 9, 1823
Died:
June 11, 1892
(aged 69)
Bio:
William Johnson Cory, born William Johnson, was an English educator and poet.
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