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OH, OH ! 'SCUSE ME, MISTER!

April 29, 1941.

By Walt Disney

Rupert Brooke-Poet-Soldier

His Message Lives

The war in Greece and the occupation, by the Germans of Lemnos and other islands in the

Aegean recalls the memory of Rupert Brooke, the young poet-soldier. He lies

in Skyros, the isle of Achilles, one of the loveliest of the Isles of Greece.

Of him Mr Winston Chur- chill said:—"Rupert Brooke's thrilling voice has been swift- ly stilled, but its message lives.

In his incomparable war sonnets he told, with all the simple force of genius, the sorrow and triumph of youth prepared to die for a noble cause. And he himself died in the absolute conviction of the rightness of his country's " crusade."

Probably the loveliest of those war sonnets, as it is the best known, is "The Soldier" which I quote in part:-

"I should die, think only this

of me!

That there's some earner of a

foreign feld

That is for ever England. There

shall be

In that rich earth a richer dust

concealed;

A dust whom England bore.

shaped, made aware,

Gave, once, her flowers to love,

her ways to roam,

A body of Enpland's, breathing

English air,

Washed by the rivers, blest by

suna of home."

Rupert Brooke-was-only-28- when he died. He was on his way to fight at Gallipoli, and his transport, the Grantully Castle, pat into the Bay of Skyros,

Brooke and his friends scrambled joyously up and down the steep slopes of that exquisite island-an island like a great rock-garden of white and pink marble over- grown with every kind of wild flower.

everywhere splashed with great patches of vivid anemones.

They rested in the shude of an olive grove. Five days later, ou April 23, 1915-the day of Shokes- peare and of St George-Brooke was buried under those very trees." He died from acute blood poisoning on board the French hospitni ship, the Duguay-trouln, which happened to be at Skyros.

His friends dug his grave and ined it with the gayest wild- flowers they could gather, and the sailors carried him at night by the light of lanterns up the steep ilex- bordered path. As the poignant notes of the "Last Posi" rang across the moonlit bay, Rupert Brooke's soldier comrades recalled his exulting sonnel. "The Dead":

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M. M. GORRIE

"Blow out, jarur buples, over the

rich dead!

There's name of these en lonely '

and poor of old.

But, dying, has made us Taver

gifts than gold.. These laid the world away

poured out the Fed

Sweet wine of youth; gave up

the years to be

Of work and joy, and that' un-

hoped serene.

That men call age; and those

i would have been, Their sons, they gave, their Im-

mortality."

The bronze statue of the young puet on Skyros-"Rupert's Island," his friends call it stands high above the beach, silhouetted against sea and sky. The inhabi-- tants of Skyros gave the ground and the marble for its base, and the-statue-itself-is-the-gift-of_men and women in all corners of the world.

On the pedestal is a medallion of the poet's head and the simple inscription:"To Rupert Brooke, and humortal Poetry,"

On the outbreak of war Brooke had joined the Naval Brigade, and in October 1914 took part in the expedition for the relief of doomed Antwerp. Writing to a friend, he

says:---

"I saw a city bombarded and 100,000 refugees. Antwerp

was like several different kinds of hell. The Germans policy of frightful- ness succeeded well. I'll never for.

get that white-faced endless pro- cession of broken people. It's. ghastly for anyone who Ilked Ger- many as well as I did. Their guilt can never be washed out, I'm afraid, fifty years, won't give them the continuity and loveliness of life back again. And now I've a feeling of anger at a seen wrong -Belgium-to make me more re- solved in my work. The central purpose of my life now-the thing God wants of me-is to get good al beating Germans."

And back in Blandford camp, in the sublimation of spirit engen- dered by the solemn dedication of his life to this end, his "1914" war sonnets were conceived-"my five camp-children" he called them when writing to a friend.

Brooke SIW arid loved, "the beauty that Ives among the com- mon things." He writes:-

"These have I loved,

White plates and cupis clean

pleaming:

Soft furs to touch, end fentherp

Jaery dust.

Wet roofs beneath the lamplight:

the strong crust

Of friendly break and manp

tasting food.

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cool kindliness ọj sheets, that soon

Smooth away trouble; and the

rough male kiss

Of blankets: grainy wood; the

keen

Unpassioned beauty of a preat

machine."

Both at Rugby and at King's College, Cambridge, he was steeped in the Hellenic tradition. Poetry was born in Greece; thus Brooke lies buried in the land of his spiri- tual birth.

And he and all the other sons of Britain who lie in the "corners of those foreign fields that are for ever England" must surely watch with influite pride, their sons' gal- lant response to the message of the Fiery Cruss af Freedom. Their sacrifice will not and must not be in vain.

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