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The Wayfarers

By Rupert Brooke

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Is it the hour? We leave this resting-place     Made fair by one another for a while.     Now, for a god-speed, one last mad embrace;     The long road then, unlit by your faint smile.     Ah! the long road! and you so far away!     Oh, I'll remember! but . . . each crawling day     Will pale a little your scarlet lips, each mile     Dull the dear pain of your remembered face.     . . . Do you think there's a far border town, somewhere,     The desert's edge, last of the lands we know,     Some gaunt eventual limit of our light,     In which I'll find you waiting; and we'll go     Together, hand in hand again, out there,     Into the waste we know not, into the night?

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About Rupert Brooke

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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