The soldier poet reflects that if he should die in a foreign land, he asks to be remembered not as simply dying abroad, but that a small piece of the foreign field will always be England through his remains resting there. He describes how though his body will be in a distant land, his essence remains truly English as his body was shaped by England and he retains memories of his homeland. He hopes to be at peace in death as his spirit returns to the eternal mind under an English heaven.