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Grantchester

by Charles Ives

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Grantchester
English source: Rupert Brooke

Would I were in Grantchester, in Grantchester!
Some, it may-be, can get in touch
With Nature there or Earth or such
And clever modern men have seen
A Faun a-peeping through the green
And felt the Classics were not dead
To glimpse a Naiad's reedy head
Or hear the Goat foot piping low....
But these are things I do not know
I only know that you may lie
Day long and watch the Cambridge sky
And, flower lulled in sleepy grass
Hear the cool lapse of hours pass
Until the centuries blend and blur
In Grantchеster, in Grantchester

Composer

Charles Ives

Charles Edward Ives was an American modernist composer. Read more here.

Poet

Rupert Brooke

Rupert Chawner Brooke was an English poet, largely known for the war sonnets he wrote during the First World War.

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