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Day buries day month, month and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Life
Deaths
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Month
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We nothing know, but what is marvellous Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.
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