RUPERT BROOKE'S DEATH AND BURIAL "Basedon the J^pg of the French Hospital Ship T> UgUzAT- T%p UIJ^ Trans/atedfrom the French of J. Perdriel- Vaissieres by Vincent O' Sullivan ^^T*roudy theriy clear-eyed and laughing^ Qo to greet 'Death as a friends RUi'ERT BROOKE ] beat about the island, and it will be by rare chance that some goatherd clad in skins climbs the hill and passes there, or some fisherman in whose basket gleams the silver-bellied fish. The Muse watches, and the obscure colloquy in which she is absorbed alters her immemorial presence little by little. When the great war is over, those who go to seek the cherished ashes of the poet will see arise beneath the olive trees of Scyros a glorious countenance they have not yet seen. Liberty sprang from Byron's grave; O Rupert Brooke, look forth with us and see Victory arise from thine! THREE HUNDRED COPIES OF THIS BOOK HAVE BEEN PRINTED IN THE MONTH OF DECEMBER, MDCCCCXVII, AND THE TYPE DISTRIBUTED IT. iA. 'Bradley • Tale University Tress • 7^w Haven mm unRAKY -1- 0^40 r "^