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;
This line has religious implications, ‘washed by the rivers’ and ‘blest’ recalling the Christian rite of baptism. This would fit Brooke’s mindset as a conventional young man of his time. 
 The final phrase ‘suns of home’ ends the section with a sense of optimism and emotional resilience, despite the subject matter of death through conflict.
The Soldier