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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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Poem Heraclitus

 

William Johnson Cory

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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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Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.

 

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