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An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave legions of angels can't confine me there.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Dying
Confine
Arms
Legion
Fear
Grave
Death
Angels
Hands
Graves
Rage
Angel
Legions
Atheism
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Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!
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Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.
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