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Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Whose
Look
Looks
Yesterdays
Backwards
Yesterday
Smile

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One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.
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And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?
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Midway from Nothing to the Deity!
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There buds the promise of celestial worth.
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One to destroy, is murder by the law and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.
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A land of levity is a land of guilt.
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Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.
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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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'T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven.
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