A poem titled for this university begins “Softly I am leaving, / Just as softly as I came; / I softly wave goodbye / To the clouds in the western sky.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this university where a stone bears an inscription of lines from Xú Zhìmó’s (“shoo jurr-mwoh’s”) best-known poem, which is about leaving this university.
ANSWER: Cambridge University [accept “On Leaving Cambridge,” “Leaving Cambridge Again,” “Farewell Again, Cambridge,” or “Saying Good-bye to Cambridge Again”; accept “Zài Bié Kāngqiáo”]
[10m] This poet declared “For Cambridge people rarely smile” in “The Old Vicarage, Grantchester.” A sonnet by this poet begins “If I should die, think only this of me” before describing “rich earth” with “a richer dust concealed.”
ANSWER: Rupert Brooke [or Rupert Chawner Brooke] (The sonnet is “The Soldier.”)
[10e] This poet described his “Residence at Cambridge” in the third book of his long autobiographical poem, The Prelude.
ANSWER: William Wordsworth
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