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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
Yesterdays
Backwards
Yesterday
Smile
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A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him he look'd plump and fair, While rankest venom foam'd through every vein.
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Angels are men of a superior kind Angels are men in lighter habit clad.
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