Who made the world I cannot tell;
‘Tis made, and here am I in hell.
My hand, though now my knuckles bleed,
I never soiled with such a deed.

A. E. Housman (1859-1936) English scholar and poet [Alfred Edward Housman]
More Poems, No. 19, st. 2 (1936)

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