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Old 13-04-2003, 08:27 PM #11
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I finally camer across this poem. Some what apt given current news.

The Soldier
Rupert Brooke

If I should die, think only this of me
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 that England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England’s, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams, happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
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