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THE TREASURE by RUPERT BROOKE

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First Line: WHEN COLOUR GOES HOME INTO THE EYES
Last Line: WHEN CHILDREN SLEEP, ERE NIGHT.
Subject(s): SOLDIERS' WRITINGS;
When colour goes home into the eyes,
And lights that shine are shut again
With dancing girls and sweet birds' cries
Behind the gateways of the brain;
And that no-place which gave them birth, shall close
The rainbow and the rose: --

Still may Time hold some golden space
Where I'll unpack that scented store
Of song and flo
When children sleep, ere night.






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