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NUMBER:29048
QUOTATION:Malt does more than Milton can
To justify God’s ways to man.
ATTRIBUTION:A.E. (Alfred Edward) Housman (1859–1936), British poet, classical scholar. A Shropshire Lad, no. 62 (1896).

Alluding to Milton’s lines: See interpretation.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
WORKS:Housman Collection.
 
 
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