Rarely has an elegy to friendship been written better:<\/p>\n
Heraclitus
\nThey told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead;
\nThey brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed;
\nI wept, as I remembered, how often you and I
\nHad tired the sun with talking, and sent him down the sky.<\/p>\n
And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest,
\nA handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest,
\nStill are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales, awake;
\nFor Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take.
\n— William Johnson Cory<\/p>\n
Heraclitus himself besides being a philosopher wrote poetry. The beauty of his style \u00a0gave rise the the epithet ‘nightingales’ for his poems.<\/p>\n
According to scholars who learned at his feet, William Johnson Cory was one of the finest teachers ever to teach at Eton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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