Thanks, Bob.
That’s beautiful.
Chris
> On 29 Aug 2016, at 15:19, Bob Whitmire <fujixbob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> He was RCAF in the beginning, then RAF, I think. One American, one Canadian
> parent? Died in a training accident in 1941. He also wrote an excellent
> eulogy to Rupert Brooke.
>
> Sonnet to Rupert Brooke
> by John Gillespie Magee
>
> "We laid him in a cool and shadowed grove
> One evening in the dreamy scent of thyme
> Where leaves were green, and whispered high above —
> A grave as humble as it was sublime;
> There, dreaming in the fading deeps of light —
> The hands that thrilled to touch a woman's hair;
> Brown eyes, that loved the Day, and looked on Night,
> A soul that found at last its answered Prayer...
> There daylight, as a dust, slips through the trees.
> And drifting, gilds the fern around his grave —
> Where even now, perhaps, the evening breeze
> Steals shyly past the tomb of him who gave
> New sight to blinded eyes; who sometimes wept —
> A short time dearly loved; and after, — slept."
>
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