| Rupert Brooke (1887–1915). Collected Poems. 1916. |
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| VI. Other Poems |
| 8. Beauty and Beauty |
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| WHEN Beauty and Beauty meet | |
| All naked, fair to fair, | |
| The earth is crying-sweet, | |
| And scattering-bright the air, | |
| Eddying, dizzying, closing round, | 5 |
| With soft and drunken laughter; | |
| Veiling all that may befall | |
| After—after— | |
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| Where Beauty and Beauty met, | |
| Earth’s still a-tremble there, | 10 |
| 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 | 15 |
| After—after— | |
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