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Fragment On Painters

By Rupert Brooke

Topics: classic

There is an evil which that Race attaints     Who represent God's World with oily paints,     Who mock the Universe, so rare and sweet,     With spots of colour on a canvas sheet,     Defile the Lovely and insult the Good     By scrawling upon little bits of wood.     They'd snare the moon, and catch the immortal sun     With madder brown and pale vermilion,     Entrap an English evening's magic hush . . .

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Rupert Brooke (1887–1915) was an English war poet whose sonnets—including "The Soldier" ("If I should die, think only this of me")—idealized the sacrifice of war. He died of sepsis en route to Gallipoli and became a symbol of the lost generation of WWI.

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