Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
¶ (Attributed)
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A. E. Housman (1859-1936) English scholar and poet [Alfred Edward Housman]
And how am I to face the odds
Of man's bedevilment, and God's?
I, a stranger and afraid
In a world I never made.
¶ A Shropshire Lad
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