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Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
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Death
Love
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He sins against this life, who slights the next.
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O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be alone.
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The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.
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We push time from us, and we wish him back * * * * * * Life we think long and short death seek and shun.
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When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
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