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A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

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Rupert Brooke
Age: 28 †
Born: 1887
Born: January 1
Died: 1915
Died: January 1
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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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Love is a breach in the walls, a broken gate, Love sells the proud heart's citadel to fate.
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A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
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Proud, then, clear-eyed and laughing, go to greet Death as a friend!
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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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There's little comfort in the wise
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Down the blue night the unending columns press In noiseless tumult, break and wave and flow
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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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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.
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These laid the world away poured out the red Sweet wine of youth gave up the years to be Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene, That men call age and those who would have been, Their sons, they gave, their immortality.
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Canada is a live country - live, but not, like the States, kicking.
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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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But there's wisdom in women, of more than they have known, And thoughts go blowing through them, are wiser than their own.
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Oh! death will find me, long before I tire Of watching for you and swing me suddenly Into the shade and loneliness and mire Of the last land!
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.. . . would I were In Grantchester, in Grantchester!
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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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Spend in pure converse our eternal day Think each in each, immediately wise Learn all we lacked before hear, know, and say What this tumultuous body now denies And feel, who have laid our groping hands away And see, no longer blinded by our eyes.
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Incredibly, inordinately, devastatingly, immortally, calamitously, hearteningly, adorably beautiful.
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