William Johnson Cory
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"William Johnson Cory", born William Johnson, was an English educator and poet.

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Jolly boating weather, / And a hay harvest breeze, / Blade on the feather, / Shade off the trees.

All beauteous things for which we liveBy laws of time and space decay.But oh, the very reason whyI clasp them, is because they die.

Your chilly stars I can forgo,This warm kind world is all I know.