• 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.

  Source: More Poems (1936) No. 19, st. 2

  A. E. Housman
  British poet 1859-1936
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1. knuckles
2. though
3. soiled
4. never

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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. by : A. E. Housman

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