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Encyclopedia entry: Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality, The Complaint or
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Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality, The Complaint or,
a didactic and reflective poem of some 10,000 lines of blank verse, in nine books, by E.
Young
, published 1742–5.
It is a long and somewhat rambling meditation on life's vicissitudes, death, and immortality, and includes lines which have become proverbial, such as ‘Procrastination is the thief of ...