A.E. Housman (1859–1936) English classical scholar and poet
No. 12, l. 15-18. <br class="br"> Last Poems http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8lspm10.txt (1922)
“I, a stranger and afraid
In a world I never made.”
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In a world I never made." by A.E. Housman?
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