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I have been so great a lover filled my days	A
So proudly with the splendour of Love's praise	A
The pain the calm and the astonishment	B
Desire illimitable and still content	C
And all dear names men use to cheat despair	D
For the perplexed and viewless streams that bear	D
Our hearts at random down the dark of life	E
Now ere the unthinking silence on that strife	E
Steals down I would cheat drowsy Death so far	F
My night shall be remembered for a star	F
That outshone all the suns of all men's days	A
Shall I not crown them with immortal praise	A
Whom I have loved who have given me dared with me	G
High secrets and in darkness knelt to see	G
The inenarrable godhead of delight	H
Love is a flame we have beaconed the world's night	H
A city and we have built it these and I	I
An emperor we have taught the world to die	I
So for their sakes I loved ere I go hence	J
And the high cause of Love's magnificence	J
And to keep loyalties young I'll write those names	J
Golden for ever eagles crying flames	J
And set them as a banner that men may know	K
To dare the generations burn and blow	K
Out on the wind of Time shining and streaming	L
These I have loved	M
White plates and cups clean gleaming	L
Ringed with blue lines and feathery faery dust	N
Wet roofs beneath the lamp light the strong crust	N
Of friendly bread and many tasting food	O
Rainbows and the blue bitter smoke of wood	P
And radiant raindrops couching in cool flowers	J
And flowers themselves that sway through sunny hours	J
Dreaming of moths that drink them under the moon	Q
Then the cool kindliness of sheets that soon	Q
Smooth away trouble and the rough male kiss	J
Of blankets grainy wood live hair that is	J
Shining and free blue massing clouds the keen	R
Unpassioned beauty of a great machine	R
The benison of hot water furs to touch	S
The good smell of old clothes and other such	S
The comfortable smell of friendly fingers	J
Hair's fragrance and the musty reek that lingers	J
About dead leaves and last year's ferns	J
Dear names	J
And thousand other throng to me Royal flames	J
Sweet water's dimpling laugh from tap or spring	L
Holes in the ground and voices that do sing	L
Voices in laughter too and body's pain	T
Soon turned to peace and the deep panting train	T
Firm sands the little dulling edge of foam	U
That browns and dwindles as the wave goes home	U
And washen stones gay for an hour the cold	V
Graveness of iron moist black earthen mould	V
Sleep and high places footprints in the dew	W
And oaks and brown horse chestnuts glossy new	W
And new peeled sticks and shining pools on grass	J
All these have been my loves And these shall pass	J
Whatever passes not in the great hour	X
Nor all my passion all my prayers have power	X
To hold them with me through the gate of Death	Y
They'll play deserter turn with the traitor breath	Y
Break the high bond we made and sell Love's trust	N
And sacramented covenant to the dust	N
Oh never a doubt but somewhere I shall wake	Z
And give what's left of love again and make	Z
New friends now strangers	J
But the best I've known	A2
Stays here and changes breaks grows old is blown	A2
About the winds of the world and fades from brains	J
Of living men and dies	J
Nothing remains	J
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O dear my loves O faithless once again	B2
This one last gift I give that after men	B2
Shall know and later lovers far removed	C2
Praise you All these were lovely say He loved	M
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Mataiea	M

Rupert Brooke

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