Rupert Brooke
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"Rupert Chawner Brooke" was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the World War I/First World War, especially "The Soldier (poem)/The Soldier". He was also known for his boyish good looks, which were said to have prompted the Irish poet W. B. Yeats to describe him as "the handsomest young man in England".}

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And see, no longer blinded by our eyes.

And in that Heaven of all their wish, there shall be no more land, say fish.

If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.

A pulse in the eternal mind, no less, gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given. Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day; and laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness, in hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

But somewhere, beyond space and time, is wetter water, slimier slime! And there (they trust) there swimmeth one, who swam ere rivers were begun. Immense, of fishy form and mind, squamous, omnipotent, and kind.

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