Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke — Sonnet: In Time of Revolt

1912 (?

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Sonnet: in Time of Revolt The Thing must End.

I am no boy!

I am No BOY!

I being twenty-one.

Uncle, you make A great mistake, a very great mistake, In chiding me for letting slip a "Damn!"

What's more, you called me "Mother's one ewe lamb," Bade me "refrain from swearing--for her sake-- Till I'm grown up" .

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--By God!

I think you take Too much upon you, Uncle William!

You say I am your brother's only son.

I know it.

And, "What of it?"

I reply.

My heart's resolved.

Something must be done.

So shall I curb, so baffle, so suppress This too avuncular officiousness, Intolerable consanguinity.