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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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“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.

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

William Johnson Cory

Poem Heraclitus.

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