To justify God's ways to man.
A poem by this person claims he will see a tree "hung with snow" fifty more times and describes that   tree as "Wearing white for Eastertide". This poet of "Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now" wrote a  poem in which a man who eats his "victuals fast enough" says that "Malt does more than Milton can   / To justify God's ways to man." This poet wrote "And early though the laurel grows / It withers  quicker than the rose" in a poem that begins "The time you won your town the race / We chaired  you through the market place." Name this poet whose collection A Shropshire Lad  includes his works  "Terence, this is stupid stuff" and "To an Athlete Dying Young".
A poem by this person claims he will see a tree "hung with snow" fifty more times and describes that   tree as "Wearing white for Eastertide".
A(lfred) E(dward) Housman