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" Spend the glittering moonlight there
Pursuing down the soundless deep
Limbs that gleam and shadowy hair,
Or floating lazy, half-asleep.
Dive and double and follow after,
Snare in flowers, and kiss, and call,
With lips that fade, and human laughter
And faces individual,
Well this side of Paradise! . . .
There's little comfort in the wise. "

Rupert Brooke , The Collected Poems


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Rupert Brooke quote : Spend the glittering moonlight there<br />Pursuing down the soundless deep<br />Limbs that gleam and shadowy hair,<br />Or floating lazy, half-asleep.<br />Dive and double and follow after,<br />Snare in flowers, and kiss, and call,<br />With lips that fade, and human laughter<br />And faces individual,<br />Well this side of Paradise! . . .<br />There's little comfort in the wise.