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Incredibly, inordinately, devastatingly, immortally, calamitously, hearteningly, adorably beautiful.

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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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Incredibly
Beauty
Beautiful
Inordinately
Devastatingly

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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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Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond But is there anything Beyond?
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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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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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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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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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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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Proud, then, clear-eyed and laughing, go to greet Death as a friend!
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The worst of slaves is he whom passion rules.
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I have need to busy my heart with quietude.
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Youth is stranger than fiction.
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Hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
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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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Down the blue night the unending columns press In noiseless tumult, break and wave and flow
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.. . . would I were In Grantchester, in Grantchester!
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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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Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.
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Just now the lilac is in bloom All before my little room.
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I have been so great a lover: filled my days So proudly with the splendour of Love's praise, The pain, the calm, and the astonishment, Desire illimitable, and silent content, And all dear names men use, to cheat despair, For the perplexed and viewless streams that bear Our hearts at random down the dark of life.
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