RUPERT BROOKE
MEMORIAL AT SKYROS
Poets from Great Britain, .I'rancc, Belgium, America, and other countries stood around tho statuo of Rupert Brooke on the Grecian .island of -Sky? ros, when this memorial was recently unveiled^ The memorial takes the form of a nude il'guro of, Eupert Brooke. At its base is the following inscription in Greek and English:- "To Itup.ert Brooke, tho young English . poet, who was a noble friend of Greece and of immortal poetry." It i the work of tho Greek sculptor, Michel Tombros, and has been.erected through thp efforts of the International .Kuperfc'Brooko Memorial Committee. .Tho-immortal sounot iv which Rupert Brooke- ■■ ;ranslatecl .the premonition of his" own death and',bur-j ial will bo inscribod on.tho pedestal . the statue. •■ ■ - Thoso attending the ceremony arrived- on theisland by steamer- at'cla-mr from the Piraeus. The outire population of tho island turned out to meet them, dressed in picturesque costumes; M. Veninelos,'- the Greek Prime Miuister-, performed tho unveiling ceremony, and he placed at tho base of fhe"ni:e"m: orial a wreath of flowers x'icked from Byron's grave. Speeches were made" by jyi.. Michalakop.oiilo.B,.; Mr.,. .Las.eelles ibercrpmbie,. Mr..lTurness (representing King's College and Rugfby School),. M. Paul: Boissy (Franco^, 'and M-. Paul Vanderbqrghct (Belgium). "-How great a poet. \Vas. lost when Eupert Brooko died at' 28 tvo' may vainly- •endeavour to estimate,," said the ''Dally -Telegraph;"'; iff a ; leading 'article. "Already ho had written, verses in-which' wo'find individuality .both-of imagination and feeling.; Not. it: few !good juc[ge_s'had decided, that he" was .of ;i raro promise;;' Tho evidence .will",'on-, .dnre. iii; those.poems.whren .have given us such'''phrases as 'the.essential, fiajue of night,'.and 'some." d'aiik, sufficient .heaven.'. Jt jg hiost .'probable' 'that..-ho KadAot. yet-:fi6n)o ; to'tlio fulness of. his p'Ower'ih August,.. iffX-i, ", when . -as' .he though .of Engla'pfl ''and.'-Germany ' the word; .'. xt England." seemed '' to flash., lrko a lino of foam"..' By October Jio was .fighting with the Naval. Division in that forlorn .hope', beforo Antwerp. In .Hie gprinj of. the next year he went with his division to the Dardanelles. He was. offered • post on the. staff, but preferred to stay, with hiy platoon. Thon blood-po'ifioniug followed sunstroke and on St. Oeorgo's Day, 191i5, he diod, and was bulled in Skyros. Thero are Hues which, lo.wrote- which will be a possession fot over of those .of-English blood and spe«eh."
RUPERT BROOKE
Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 120, 23 May 1931, Page 19
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