The Soldier
Rupert Brooke
1887 to 1915
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If I should die, think only this of me:
______ there’s some corner of a foreign field
That is ______ ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth ______ richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, ______ aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways ______ roam,
A body of England’s, breathing English air,
Washed ______ the rivers, blest by suns of home.
And think, ______ heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the ______ mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts of ______ given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts ______ peace, under an English heaven.