It's Not Going To Happen Again

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Title:     It's Not Going To Happen Again
Author: Rupert Brooke [More Titles by Brooke]

I have known the most dear that is granted us here,
More supreme than the gods know above,
Like a star I was hurled through the sweet of the world,
And the height and the light of it, Love.
I have risen to the uttermost Heaven of Joy,
I have sunk to the sheer Hell of Pain--
But--it's not going to happen again, my boy,
It's not going to happen again.

It's the very first word that poor Juliet heard
From her Romeo over the Styx;
And the Roman will tell Cleopatra in hell
When she starts her immortal old tricks;
What Paris was tellin' for good-bye to Helen
When he bundled her into the train--
Oh, it's not going to happen again, old girl,
It's not going to happen again.

Chateau Lake Louise, Canada, 1913.

[The end]
Rupert Brooke's poem: It's Not Going To Happen Again

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