In "The Jolly Company" he says:
"O white companionship! You only
In love, in faith unbroken dwell,
Friends, radiant and inseparable!"
"Light-hearted and glad they seemed to me
And merry comrades, even so
God out of heaven may laugh to see.--"
The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke.
Then, again, in a poem which he called "Lines Written in the Belief
That the Ancient Roman Festival of the Dead Was Called Ambarvalia," he
voices in an even more striking quatrain the immortality of friendship.
What a thrill of hope runs through us here as we, who believe that life
brings no richer gold than friendship, read this poet's thought that
friendship too shall last beyond the years!
"And I know, one night, on some far height,
In the tongue I never knew,
I yet shall hear the tidings clear
From them that were friends of you.--"
The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke.
THE GOSPEL OF LOVE
And where Friendship sweeps into love who shall tell, or where the
dividing line is? But while Brooks lived he forgot not love. His was a
throbbing, beating love whose light was a beacon night and day; a
beacon of which he was not ashamed. He set the fires of romantic love
burning and when he went away he left them burning so that their light
might light the way for other poets and other lovers and other
travelers when they came.
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