Rupert Brooke: Beauty and Beauty (1912)

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The moment of ecstasy, celebrated in a Cosmic wedding, the remnants of the moment, kept by the Cosmos-Priest, offered in reverberating memories

When Beauty and Beauty meet

   All naked, fair to fair,

The earth is crying-sweet,

   And scattering-bright the air,

Eddying, dizzying, closing round,

   With soft and drunken laughter;

Veiling all that may befall

   After--after--

Where Beauty and Beauty met,

   Earth's still a-tremble there,

And winds are scented yet,

   And memory-soft the air,

Bosoming, folding glints of light,

   And shreds of shadowy laughter;

Not the tears that fill the years

   After--after--

(The Rupert Brooke Society)

(video by Gill E Shaw)

(Rupert Brooke)