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Q: Need to find a specific poem ( Answered 5 out of 5 stars,   0 Comments )
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Subject: Need to find a specific poem
Category: Arts and Entertainment > Books and Literature
Asked by: katherine03-ga
List Price: $10.00
Posted: 08 Oct 2003 14:32 PDT
Expires: 07 Nov 2003 13:32 PST
Question ID: 264341
Need to find a specific "funeral" poem ($10).  Contains the words or
has a passage that goes something like:  "if I die in a far away (or
foreign?) land...bury me in a small corner in England"  or something
like that.  It may be by Yeats or Tenneyson but I'm not sure.
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Subject: Re: Need to find a specific poem
Answered By: juggler-ga on 08 Oct 2003 15:00 PDT
Rated:5 out of 5 stars
 
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
More results:
://www.google.com/search?q=%22Rupert+Brooke%22+%22some+corner+of+a+foreign%22%22blest+by+suns%22+&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&start=10&sa=N


search strategy:
"if I should die", corner, england, poem
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22if+I+should+die%22+corner+england+poem&btnG=Google+Search

I hope this is the poem that you wanted. If it's not, please use the
"request clarification" feature to let me know, and I will gladly
resume my search. Thank you.
katherine03-ga rated this answer:5 out of 5 stars
Thanks for the fast and accurate response.  This is my first time
using this service and it is great!

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