Rupert Brooke - The Old Vicarage, Grantchester

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Stands the Church clock at ten to three?
And is there honey still for tea?

Rupert Brooke

For Cambridge people rarely smile,
Being urban, squat, and packed with guile.

Rupert Brooke

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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And in my flower-beds, I think,
Smile the carnation and the pink.

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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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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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