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William Johnson Cory , born William Johnson, was an English educator and poet. He was dismissed from his post at Eton for encouraging a culture of intimacy, possibly non-sexual, between teachers and pupils. He is widely known for his English version of the elegy Heraclitus by Callimachus. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. January 1823 – 11. June 1892
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William Johnson Cory Quotes

“They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead,
They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed.”

William Johnson Cory

Poem Heraclitus http://www.bartleby.com/101/759.html.

Tear , Dead

“Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales, awake;
For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take.”

William Johnson Cory

Poem Heraclitus.

Death

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