"The Soldier" Rupert Brooke Howe Tonya Transcription, correction, editorial commentary, and markup Students and Staff of the University of Virginia National Endowment for the Humanities Literature in Context
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Published by Literature in Context under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Unported License "The Soldier" Rupert Brooke 1914, and Other Poems London Sidgwick & Jackson 1915 "The Soldier" was originally published the fifth of a series of six poems under the title "1914" in Rupert Brooke's posthumous volume 1914, and Other Poems, published in 1915. Our edition has been transcribed from the Internet Archive's copy of the first edition. pp 9-11 English print single poem

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 Numbered divs used. Library of Congress Name Authority File Library of Congress Classification Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Open Researcher and Contributor ID transcribed for Literature in Context edition 1914AND OTHER POEMSBY RUPERT BROOKE LONDON SIDGWICK & JACKSON, LTD. 3 ADAM STREET ADELPHI W. C. 1915
V. THE SOLDIER If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware. Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. And think, this heart, all evil shed away, A pulse in the eternal mind, no less Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given; Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day; And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.