1913 The Poet Rupert Brooke - Revision history

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 '''''“Ah Pink, ah pub of my desire,    Ah Lily for my meandering feet!”'''''
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-''Our pub is perhaps unique in being celebrated in two poems written by one of Britain’s leading poets.''
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 The poet Rupert Brooke, loved to visit and walk with his friends in this area, using the Pink and Lily as his base.   He was one of the leading WW1 poets, probably the pub’s most famous regular.  His most famous lines, from “The Soldier”, run:-
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 '''''As bitter at the Pink and Lily.”'''''
 One poem he wrote began:-
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 '''''“Ah Pink, ah pub of my desire,    Ah Lily for my meandering feet!”'''''
-Our pub is perhaps unique in being celebrated in two poems written by one of Britain’s leading poets.
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-Editor’s comment.   This is taken from a report by Nigel Henburst in 2015 on a celebration at the pub on the anniversary of Brooke’s death.{{Social Snapshot
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-The poet Rupert Brooke, loved to visit and walk with his friends in this area, using the Pink and Lily as his base.     He was one of the leading WW1 poets, probably the pub’s most famous regular.    His most famous lines, from “The Soldier” run:-
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 '''''“If I should die, think only this of me'''''
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 '''''That is forever England.”'''''
-He did die from septicaemia from a mosquito bite, as he travelled to fight in the Allied landings at Gallipolli.     He is buried on the Greek island of Skyros.
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 In March 1913, Rupert penned a letter to an old friend in what we now call The Brooke Bar:
 “I write in the Pink and Lily.   The hill drops a few hundred feet in front, and beyond is half of Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Oxfordshire.   In this little room is the publican, asleep and rather tipsy”!
 With his friend, the painter Jaques Raverat, Rupert composed an apposite piece of doggerel:
 '''''“Never came there to the Pink'''''
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 One poem he wrote began:-
 '''''“Ah Pink, ah pub of my desire,    Ah Lily for my meandering feet!”'''''
 Our pub is perhaps unique in being celebrated in two poems written by one of Britain’s leading poets.
 Editor’s comment.   This is taken from a report by Nigel Henburst in 2015 on a celebration at the pub on the anniversary of Brooke’s death.{{Social Snapshot