Where is the line, " a corner of a foreign field that will be for ever England" from?

Question

I'm not sure if I've got the quote right but it is driving me mad not being able to find the source

Answer 1

Its from Rupert Brookes 'The Soldier' - It goes like this ---

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

Answer 2

Those poignant heartbreaking lines are from Rupert Brooke's 'The Soldier'.
The entire poem is as follows:

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, 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 the 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.

Answer 3

Its from a poem by Rupert Brooke, a WW1 poet, who was killed in 1915 I think.

V. 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.

Answer 4

Morris has it! Well done.
That quote is often erroneously used to refer to Flanders Field, where so many English soldiers were buried.

Answer 5

Give Morris994 the points!

Answer 6

morris994
well said - you deserve the 10

Answer 7

I think it's All Quiet on the Western Front.

Answer 8

Errr... Churchill, our Leader through thick and a lotta thin !!