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Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.

Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.

Rupert Brooke
Friendship, Death, Long
Rupert Brooke (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics

But the best I've known Stays here, and changes, breaks, grows old, is blown About the winds of the world, and fades from brains Of living men, and dies.

Rupert Brooke
Death, Men, Wind
Rupert Brooke (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)”, p.44, Delphi Classics

But only agony, and that has ending; And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.

Rupert Brooke
Death, Agony, Enemy
'Peace' (1914)

Proud, then, clear-eyed and laughing, go to greet Death as a friend!

Rupert Brooke
Death, Laughing, Proud
Rupert Brooke, Sir Edward Howard Marsh (1942). “Rupert Brooke: The Collected Poems”

Mud unto mud!--Death eddies near-- Not here the appointed End, not here! But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, Is wetter water, slimier slime!

Rupert Brooke
Death, Space, Water
Rupert Brooke (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)”, p.45, Delphi Classics

Oh! death will find me, long before I tire Of watching for you; and swing me suddenly Into the shade and loneliness and mire Of the last land!

Rupert Brooke
Death, Loneliness, Swings
Rupert Brooke (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics

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