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Rupert Brooke
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Rupert Brooke
Age: 28 †
Born: 1887
Born: January 1
Died: 1915
Died: January 1
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Rugby
Warwickshire
Rupert Chawner Brooke
Rupert Chaucer Brooke
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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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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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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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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.
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A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
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The worst of slaves is he whom passion rules.
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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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Love is a breach in the walls, a broken gate, Love sells the proud heart's citadel to fate.
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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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And in that Heaven of all their wish, there shall be no more land, say fish
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All the little emptiness of love!
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Hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
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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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Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
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Store up reservoirs of calm and content and draw on them at later moments when the source isn't there, but the need is very great.
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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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Proud, then, clear-eyed and laughing, go to greet Death as a friend!
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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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I have need to busy my heart with quietude.
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