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Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. V. Browning to Rupert Brooke

Rupert Brooke (1887–1915)

Beauty and Beauty

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—