Death
Rooke died in Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England, in 1958. She retired from the theatre more than twenty years prior to her death. She was married to Milton Rosmer.
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Then love-devouring death do what he dare,
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by galaxy and cedar cone,
as if birth had never found it
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