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Oh how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In… — A.E. Housman

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Oh 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.E. Housman
1922
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Topic
AlienationCourageThe human condition
Statement type
Question
Medium
Poem
Time
1922
Person
A.E. Housman
Provenance
Current citation
Housman, Alfred Edward. "Last Poems." A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems, edited by Archie Burnett. Penguin Classics, 2010, no. 12.
Original citation
Housman, Alfred Edward. Last Poems. Henry Holt & Company, 1922, no. 12.

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