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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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Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'.
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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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