Hello.
I believe that you're thinking of Rupert Brooke's famous poem "The
Soldier" which contains the lines, "If I should die, think only this
of me: / That there's some corner of a foreign field / That is for
ever England."
Here's the complete poem:
"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.
sources:
Bartleby.com
http://www.bartleby.com/266/79.html
Emory Univesity
http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/LostPoets/Sonnets.html
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