...Grantchester' Stands the Church clock at ten to three And is there honey still for tea? 1580 'Peace' Now, as a king, to earth, And paid his subjects with a...walks in our ways again: And we have come into our 1581 'Peace' Naught broken save this body, lost but breath; Nothing to shake the laughing heart's long...

..."purification." For example, the young Rupert Brooke wrote, in the euphoria of the outbreak of the war: Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour, And...Leave the sick hearts that honour could not move, 35. Cited in Silvio Vietta, ed., Lyrik des Exfrressionismus (Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag,...

...world. But there is a lust of battle, too, where great resolve can lift men to their finest hour. "Now, God be thanked. Who has matched us with His hour,...And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping." Some seize upon the day, others are seized by the emergencies of thought or of action, but all rejoice...

...Cambridge poet Rupert Brooke expressed the early British enthusiasm for the war in "Peace" (1914): Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour. And...power, To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping. But Brooke died of blood poisoning in 1915 on his way to Gallipoli. Soldiers discovered that the conventional...

...Rupert Brooke rhapsodized in his poem "Peace" that he had reached adulthood in the nick of time: "Now God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour, /...And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping." Brooke's haunting verses meshed readily with the Pre-Raphaelite view of youth as frozen in time and...

...Mannering's place. War, after all, was a man's testing ground. More lines slipped into his mind: "Now God be thanked who has matched us with His hour and caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping." rugby field with its tiered stadium, the crowds, the flags snapping, the blue sky, the players trotting...

...service of honor, an especially clear message conveyed in the first octave of his most famous poem: Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour, And...songs and dreary, And all the little emptiness of love!4 Brooke saw action only briefly at the start of the war and died of a noncombat-related infection...

...opportunity for national and cultural regeneration, a sentiment caught in Rupert Brooke's lines: Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour And...cleanness leaping Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary.1 Others, most notably Bertrand Russell and George Bernard Shaw, opposed the war from the outset....

...youth it came as a crisis of the spirit. At the outbreak of the war, Rupert Brooke had written: "Now God be thanked, Who has matched us with His hour,...And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping." They had marched off to the lilt of "Tipperary," or "Die Wacht am Rhein," or "La Marseillaise," dreaming...

...Brooke's famous description of recruits remains remarkably evocative of the mood — 'as swimmers with cleanness leaping, glad from a world grown old and cold and weary'. Less pleasing to the elder statesmen of social Darwinism was the reversal of the traditional hierarchy...