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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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William Johnson Cory

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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