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” . . .-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.
In Time Of Revolt
Rupert Brooke
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Poem topics: brother, god, heart, mother, son, sake, great, mistake, uncle, I love you, I miss you, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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