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TRANSLATION OF A FRAGMENT OF HERACLITUS[1007:1]
Not hers
To win the sense by words of rhetoric,
Lip-blossoms breathing perishable sweets;
But by the power of the informing Word
Roll sounding onward through a thousand years
Her deep prophetic bodements.
1816. First published in Lit. Rem., iii. 418, 419. First collected P. and D. W., 1877, ii. 367.
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Truth I pursued, as Fancy sketch'd the way,
And wiser men than I went worse astray.
First published as Motto to Essay II, The Friend, 1818, ii. 37; 1850, ii. 27. First collected 1893.