Quotation by Rupert Brooke

The women there do all they ought;
The men observe the Rules of Thought;
They love the Good; they worship Truth;
They laugh uproariously in youth;
(And when they get to feeling old,
They up and shoot themselves, I'm told). . .
Rupert Brooke (1887–1915), British poet. The Old Vicarage, Grantchester (l. 110–115). . .

Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (1973) Oxford University Press.
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