“If I should die, think only this of me:<\/p>\n
That there’s some corner of a foreign field<\/p>\n
That is forever England. There shall be<\/p>\n
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;<\/p>\n
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,<\/p>\n
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,<\/p>\n
A body of England’s, breathing English air.<\/p>\n
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.<\/p>\n
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And think, this heart, all evils shed away,<\/p>\n
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less<\/p>\n
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;<\/p>\n
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;<\/p>\n
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,<\/p>\n
In hearts of peace, under an English heaven.”<\/p>\n
Rupert Brooke.<\/p>\n
Brooke did indeed die in that foreign place in 1915.<\/p>\n
Islander.<\/p>\n
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