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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
William Cowper
William Cowper
William Cowper
Born: Nov 26, 1731
Died: Apr 25, 1800

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Alexander Pope, Alfred Lord Tennyson, John Keats, John Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning, William Blake, William Wordsworth

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