RULE 37
Keep the faith
… ‘We have kept the faith!’ we said; ‘We shall go down with unreluctant tread. Rose-crowned into the darkness!’
This is from a poem by Rupert Brooke called The Hill, which is about friendship (I think). It may of course be about something entirely different, it’s always so hard to tell. But for me it is about the friendship between two lovers, two friends. It is about keeping faith, keeping your promise to support, trust, believe in. It may of course be about keeping faith as a religious thing, but knowing Brooke’s poems I somehow don’t think so.
Keeping the faith is about sticking to your promises, going down into darkness rose-crowned, proud, unreluctant, knowing you’ve done the right thing, stuck by your friends ...
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