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1887–1915

Beauty and Beauty

Rupert Brooke

When Beauty and Beauty meet All naked, fair to fair, The earth is crying-sweet, And scattering-bright the air,

Eddying, dizzying, closing round, With soft and drunken laughter; Veiling all that may befall After — after —

Where Beauty and Beauty met, Earth's still a-tremble there, And winds are scented yet, And memory-soft the air,

Bosoming, folding glints of light, And shreds of shadowy laughter; Not the tears that fill the years After — after —

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