Rupert Brooke

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Rupert Brooke

(In Memoriam)

I never knew you save as all men know
Twitter of mating birds, flutter of wings
In April coverts, and the streams that flow --
One of the happy voices of our Springs.

A voice for ever stilled, a memory,
Since you went eastward with the fighting ships,
A hero of the great new Odyssey,
And God has laid His finger on your lips.

Moray Dalton

Title: Rupert Brooke
Identifier: greatwar_clarke164

Item sets: A Treasury of War Poetry

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