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Mid youth and song, feasting and carnival,
Through laughter, through the roses, as of old
Comes Death, on shadowy and relentless feet
Death, unappeasable by prayer or gold;
Death is the end, the end.
Proud, then, clear-eyed and laughing, go to greet
Death as a friend!

— Rupert Brooke

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Letters from America (1916)

Stands the Church clock at ten to three?
And is there honey still for tea?

And in my flower-beds, I think,
Smile the carnation and the pink.

In your arms was still delight,
Quiet as a street at night;
And thoughts of you, I do remember,
Were green leaves in a darkened chamber,
Were dark clouds in a moonless sky.

Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond;
But is there anything Beyond?

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