Wednesday 11 November 2009

Armistice

at the Eleventh Hour,
on the Eleventh Day, of the Eleventh Month



The Soldier
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.
 
By Rupert Brook 1887 1915
last sonnet written1914

1 comment:

  1. Beautiful sonnet, we had Remebrance Day on the 4th November

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