Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

Rupert Brooke. For England 's the one land I know , Where Men with Splendid Hearts may go ; And Cambridgeshire , of all England , The shire for Men who Understand ; And of that district I prefer The lovely hamlet , Grantchester . For Cambridge people rarely smile , Being urban , squat , and packed with guile ; And Royston men in the far south Are black and fierce and strange of mouth ; At Over they fling oaths at one , And worse than oaths at Trumpington ; And Ditton girls are mean and dirty , And there 's none in Harston under thirty , And folks in Shelford and those parts Have twisted lips and twisted hearts , And Barton men make cockney rhymes , And Coton 's full of nameless crimes , And things are done you 'd not believe , At Madingley , on Christmas Eve . Strong men have run for miles and miles , When one from Cherry Hinton smiles ; Strong men have blanched , and shot their wives , Rather than send them to St . Ives ; Strong men have cried like babes , bydam , To hear what happened at Babraham . But Grantchester ! ah, Grantchester ! There 's peace and holy quiet there , Great clouds along pacific skies , And men and women with straight eyes , 28