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  ...light, and, white with dew, Whisper, and weep; and creep to you. Good sleep to you!


1914


I. Peace

Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping, With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power, To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping, Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary, Leave the sick hearts that honour could not move, And half-men, and their dirty songs and dreary, And All the little emptiness of love!  
Oh! we, who have known shame, we have found release there, Where there's no ill, no grief, but sleep has mending, Naught broken save this body, lost but breath; Nothing to shake the laughing heart's long peace there But only agony, and that has ending; And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.

II. Safety

Dear! of all happy in the hour, most blest He who has found our hid security, Assured in the dark tides of the world that rest, And heard our word, `Who...   Brooke, Rupert

Excerpt from The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke · This quote is tagged Love · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.

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