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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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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
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Long
Time
Shun
Think
Push
Thinking
Seek
Life
Short
Wish
Death

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