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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE LIFE BEYOND, by RUPERT BROOKE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: He wakes, who never thought to wake again
Last Line: It's dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on.
Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings
First Line: He wakes, who never thought to wake again
Last Line: It's dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on.
Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings
He wakes, who never thought to wake again,
Who held the end was Death. He opens eyes
Slowly, to one long livid oozing plain
Closed down by the strange eyeless heavens. He lies;
And waits; and once in timeless sick surmise
Through the dead air heaves up an unknown hand,
Like a dry branch. No life is in that land,
Himself not lives, but is a thing that cries;
An unmeaning point upon the mud; a speck
Of moveless horror; an Immortal One
Cleansed of the world, sentient and dead; a fly
Fast-stuck in grey sweat on a corpse's neck.
I thought when love for you died, I should die.
It's dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on.
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