 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,...  A Book of Verse of the Great War - Pagina 11a cura di - 1917 - 184 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
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...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... | |
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 | Glenn Watkins - 2002 - 628 pagine
...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... | |
 | Jane Toombs - 2002 - 219 pagine
...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... | |
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