OUTPACE Uncategorized The Soldier WEST BENGAL BOARD CLASS X ENGLISH

The Soldier WEST BENGAL BOARD CLASS X ENGLISH

 
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,          5
  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   10
    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.

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