{"id":991,"date":"2009-11-11T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=991"},"modified":"2013-05-01T10:33:54","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T09:33:54","slug":"the-soldier-war-sonnets-no-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=991","title":{"rendered":"The Soldier (War Sonnets No. 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/remember.porthillscouts.org.uk&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20191115181105\\\/https:\\\/\\\/remember.porthillscouts.org.uk\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 07:39:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 13:52:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-23 19:14:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-23 19:14:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p align=\"center\">If I should die, think only this of me:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">That there&#8217;s some corner of a foreign field<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">That is for ever England. There shall be<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Gave, once her flowers to love, her ways to roam,<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">A body of England&#8217;s, breathing English air,<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Washed by the rivers, blessed by the suns of home.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">And think, this heart, all evil shed away,<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">A pulse in the eternal mind, no less<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">In hearts a peace, under an English heaven.<\/p>\n<p>Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/poppy11.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Please take a look at the on <a href=\"http:\/\/remember.porthillscouts.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\"><u><font color=\"#0066cc\">line memorial to the members of my Scout Group<\/font><\/u><\/a> who have been killed in previous wars.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">I can\u2019t really put anything else down about Remembrance Day better than I <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=506\" target=\"_blank\">did last year<\/a> \u2013 so I won\u2019t!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I should die, think only this of me: That there&#8217;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&#8217;s, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=991\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Soldier (War Sonnets No. 5)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scouts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paTxP-fZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}