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.

1. The Soldier
By Rupert Brooke
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2. If I should die…
…………………….. think only this of me:

3. • That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made
aware,
FRANCE
England

4. Gave, once, her
flowers to love,

5. A body of England's, breathing
English air,

6. Washed by the rivers, blest by suns
of home.

7. And think, this heart, all evil shed
away

8. A pulse in the eternal mind, no less

9. Her sights and sounds; dreams
happy as her day

10. And laughter, learnt of friends; and
gentleness

11. In hearts at peace, under an
English heaven.

12. The Solider by Rupert Brooke
• By lily Attwood