"The Soldier"
By
Rupert Brooke
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1914
AND OTHER POEMS
BY RUPERT BROOKE
LONDON SIDGWICK & JACKSON, LTD.
3 ADAM STREET ADELPHI W. C. 1915 15 V. THE SOLDIER 1If I should die, think only this of me: 2That there's some corner of a foreign field 3That is for ever England. There shall be 4In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; 5A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware. 6Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, 7A body of England's, breathing English air, 8Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. 9And think, this heart, all evil shed away, 10A pulse in the eternal mind, no less 11Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given; 12Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day; 13And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness 14In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
AND OTHER POEMS
BY RUPERT BROOKE
LONDON SIDGWICK & JACKSON, LTD.
3 ADAM STREET ADELPHI W. C. 1915 15 V. THE SOLDIER 1If I should die, think only this of me: 2That there's some corner of a foreign field 3That is for ever England. There shall be 4In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; 5A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware. 6Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, 7A body of England's, breathing English air, 8Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. 9And think, this heart, all evil shed away, 10A pulse in the eternal mind, no less 11Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given; 12Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day; 13And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness 14In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.