The Mind
Translation of a Fragment of Heraclitus
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
The Mind
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.
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Codex Note
Translated by Coleridge from Heraclitus. 1816
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