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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Rupert Brooke

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Rupert Brooke
Age: 28 †
Born: 1887
Born: January 1
Died: 1915
Died: January 1
Poet
Rugby
Warwickshire
Rupert Chawner Brooke
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Night

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Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping, With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power, To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping.
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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress and love has changed to kindliness.
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Youth is stranger than fiction.
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Ponder deep wisdom, dark or clear, Each secret fishy hope or fear. Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond But is there anything Beyond? This life cannot be All, they swear, For how unpleasant, if it were! One may not doubt that, somehow, Good Shall come of Water and of Mud And, sure, the reverent eye must see A Purpose in Liquidity.
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.. . . would I were In Grantchester, in Grantchester!
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And in that Heaven of all their wish, there shall be no more land, say fish
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But only agony, and that has ending And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.
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If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.
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It's all a terrible tragedy. And yet, in it's details, it's great fun. And - apart from the tragedy - I've never felt happier or better in my life than in those days in Belgium.
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Mud unto mud!--Death eddies near-- Not here the appointed End, not here! But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, Is wetter water, slimier slime!
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Down the blue night the unending columns press In noiseless tumult, break and wave and flow
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I shall desire and I shall find The best of my desires The autumn road, the mellow wind That soothes the darkening shires. And laughter, and inn-fires.
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Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
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The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble and the rough male kiss of blankets.
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