...he was released from interrogation at Ham Common? He could have died as a loyal husband and father. If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of England that is forever a foreign land! The thought made a hash of Rupert Brooke's scansion, but Philby...

...Brooke. He read it to himself and then again, out aloud, slowly, moved by the emotion the words evoked: If I should die, think only this of me; That there's...England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer earth concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her...

...with the British Naval Division at Antwerp, was inspired to write his famously patriotic verse: // / should die, think only this of me: That there's some...corner of a foreign field That is for ever England . . . Six months later Brooke was dead, vanquished, not by a bullet but by a mosquito, whose bite turned...

...with the British Naval Division at Antwerp, was inspired to write his famously patriotic verse: // / should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for e\er England . . . Six months later Brooke was dead, vanquished, not by a bullet but by a mosquito,...

...lieutenant with the British Naval Division at Antwerp, was inspired to write his famously patriotic verse; If I should die. think only this of me: That there's some comer ofa foreign field That is for ever England . . . Six months later Brooke was dead, vanquished,...

...the edge of death." "Ah, yes," agreed Vaughan- Jones nodding sadly — and then proceeded to quote... If I should die, think only this of me; That there's some corner of a foreign field that is forever England. There shall be in that rich earth, a richer dust concealed;' (Sonnets V. The Soldier)."...

...fore acknowledge the resonance of places associated with violence, trauma and loss. Dust Phil Dunham If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore,...

...more." The Stone of Sacrifice 1914 The British Expeditionary Force sent to defend Belgium 1915 Brooke's 'The Soldier': "If I should die, think only this of...That there's some corner of a foreign field that is forever England." 1916-22 David Lloyd George, Prime Minister, Liberal 1916 Conscription introduced...

...berühmtes, Anfang 1915 veröffentlichtes Kriegssonett "The Soldier", das mit den folgenden Zeilen beginnt: "If I should die think only this of me / That there's some corner of a foreign field / That is forever England."31 Der Titel "Teil England" ist also nicht nur eine patriotische Geste, sondern hat...

...these I remember that a young English lieutenant expressed his grief in the words of Rupert Brooke: If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England . . . Looking at the dense jungle surrounding us, I was struck by the aptness of those...