"Where's he that died o' yesterday? What better chance hath he To clink the can and toss the pot When this night's junkets be? For the lad that died o' yesterday Is just as dead — ho! ho! — As the whoreson knave men laid away A thousand years ago."
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Essayists from the United StatesPoets from the United States19th-century poets from the United StatesCritics from the United StatesPeople from Hartford
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Edmund Clarence Stedman
Edmund Clarence Stedman (October 8, 1833 – January 18, 1908) was an American poet, critic, and essayist born at Hartford, Connecticut.
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