Versos English Rupert Brooke It's not going to happen again

English poem

It's not going to happen again

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It's not going to happen again 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.