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The women there do all they ought;
The men observe the Rules of Thought.
They love the Good; they worship Truth;
They laugh uproariously in youth;
(And when they get to feeling old,
They up and shoot themselves, I'm told).

Source: Of suburbia and the people of Grantchester, outside Cambridge, England; The Old Vicarage, Grantchester.
-- 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.

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