Stands the church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?

Rupert Brooke · The source reads: “Oh! yet Stands the church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?” · The Old Vicarage, Grantchester (1912)

Fish say, they have their stream and pond; But is there anything beyond?

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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

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The world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

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“Stands the church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?”

“Fish say, they have their stream and pond; But is there anything beyond?”

“All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.”

“There’s plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.”

“The world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.”