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BEAUTY AND BEAUTY by RUPERT BROOKE

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHEN BEAUTY AND BEAUTY MEET
Last Line: AFTER -- AFTER --
Subject(s): BEAUTY; SOLDIERS' WRITINGS;
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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