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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.