The Soldier
Rupert Brooke
1887 to 1915
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Reconstruct the poem by dragging each line into its correct position. Your goal is to reassemble the original poem as accurately as possible. As you move the lines, you'll see whether your arrangement is correct, helping you explore the poem's flow and meaning. You can also print out the jumbled poem to cut up and reassemble in the classroom. Either way, take your time, enjoy the process, and discover how the poet's words come together to create something truly beautiful.
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Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
If I should die, think only this of me:
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
That is for ever England. There shall be
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
Gives somewhere back the thoughts of England given;
That there's some corner of a foreign field
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;