| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 8439 |
| QUOTATION: | If I should die, think only this of me:
That there’s some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Rupert Brooke (1887–1915), British poet. New Numbers, no. 4 (1914). The Soldier, 1914 and Other Poems (1915).
Brooke, who died of blood-poisoning while serving during World War I, is buried on the island of Skyros, Greece. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Brooke Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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