Oh! Death will find me long before I tire
Of watching you; and swing me suddenly
Into the shade and loneliness and mire
Of the last land!
Source: The Dead St. I, 1914.
-- Rupert Brooke, (Aug 3 1887-1915), English poet; He was a gifted youth whose early death in World War I contributed to his idealized image; best known work is the sonnet sequence 1914.