If

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The words in blue are from the opening to Rupert Brooke's famous poem

IF

'If I should die'...... well, let's change that to 'when'!

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The ''If' referred to a world of fighting men,

Men who went off to fight for an ideal

Which, nowadays, seems evermore unreal!

We think of them as full of youthful beauty

All signing-up and off to do their duty.

We think of them dying in a wretched mess

Of mud and blood and other awfulness.

And Rupert Brooke was lovliest of all,

A godlike boy but destined for a fall.

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He wrote 'If I should die' and then he died

And since then he's been all but deified.

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But

When I shall die 'think only this of me'

That I fulfilled my human destiny,

To tread my time upon the stage, then leave it.

(Though it seems strange; I simply can't believe it!)

I'm eighty now, so soon I must depart

And dying is a rather tricky art!

I'll try to do it well, but who can say,

What trials will beset my dying day?

But, after the dying's over, where to then?

I simply don't believe I'll live again.

But I get comfort from the thought that I

Will spiral up as smoke into the sky.

For the sky is where I came from, so did you.

'Star-stuff' is what we're made of! Yes, that's true.

Every particle and cell of us is found

In stars and planets shining all around!

I'll have been here a while to write my verse,

But soon the process will go back into reverse.

Living for ever hasn't much appeal

And Heaven, well, that whole idea's unreal,

But 'Star Stuff' ........there's a concept to embrace!

The Universe! A very special place!

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