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The Soldier

Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) was a handsome young poet who had studied at Cambridge. He was becoming widely known for his work before the war, and had even spent some time in Tahiti (like the artist Gauguin). He moved in the circles of the Bloomsbury set (good friends with Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, the economist John Maynard Keynes and William Butler Yeats).

He joined up and was sailing to the Dardanelles for the Gallipoli campaign, when like many young soldiers of the times, he contracted an infection from an insect bite and died.

Three weeks earlier on Easter Sunday in 1915, the dean of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, William Ralph Inge, read aloud "The Soldier." Brooke's death later insured that his name would always be intertwined with his war sonnets, and with "The Soldier" in particular. As A.C. Ward comments, "The Soldier" "became the one poem inseparably linked with Rupert Brooke's name. It is, for all time, his epitaph—beautiful and tranquil." www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/rupert-brooke

“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.”

On this Remembrance Day (November 11) we will never forget the young men who marched away never to return home. And yet they will always be at home in our hearts.

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Taken on: July 23, 2020

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