The Soldier

By Rupert Brooke

If I should die, think only this of me:

      That there’s some corner of a foreign field

That is for ever England. There shall be

      In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;

A dust whom 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.

Next week in KS 3 English, your child will study 'The Soldier' or one of the following poems to help commemorate those who  have given their life for their country:

A Dead Boche - Robert Graves

Dulce De Decorm Est- Wilfred Owen

Suicide in the Trenches - Sigfied Sassoon

Who's for the game - Jessie Pope