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And then you suddenly cried, and turned away.
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Just now the lilac is in bloom,
All before my little room.
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Unkempt about those hedges blows
An English unofficial rose.
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Canada is a live country - live, but not, like the States, kicking.
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And in my flower-beds, I think,
Smile the carnation and the pink.
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Proud, then, clear-eyed and laughing, go to greet Death as a friend!
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Fish say, they have their stream and pond;
But is there anything beyond?
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And in that Heaven of all their wish, there shall be no more land, say fish
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Stands the Church clock at ten to three?
And is there honey still for tea?
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For Cambridge people rarely smile,
Being urban, squat, and packed with guile.
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But only agony, and that has ending;
And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.
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I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have.
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Breathless, we flung us on the windy hill,
Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
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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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I thought when love for you died, I should die.
It's dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on.
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Yet, behind the night, Waits for the great unborn, somewhere afar, Some white tremendous daybreak.
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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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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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Curates, long dust, will come and go
On lissom, clerical, printless toe;
And oft between the boughs is seen
The sly shade of a Rural Dean.
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God! I will pack, and take a train,
And get me to England once again!
For England's the one land, I know,
Where men with Splendid Hearts may go.
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And I shall find some girl perhaps, and a better one than you, With eyes as wise, but kindlier, and lips as soft, but true, and I dare say she will do.
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But the best I've known
Stays here, and changes, breaks, grows old, is blown
About the winds of the world, and fades from brains
Of living men, and dies.
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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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In your arms was still delight,
Quiet as a street at night;
And thoughts of you, I do remember,
Were green leaves in a darkened chamber,
Were dark clouds in a moonless sky.
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
John Betjeman
Rupert Brooke
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Born:
August 3, 1887
Died:
April 23, 1915
(aged 27)
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