Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895.
William Johnson Cory 182392Heracleitus
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They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed.
I wept, as I remember’d how often you and I
Had tir’d the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.
A handful of gray ashes, long, long ago at rest,
Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales, awake;
For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take.