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First World War
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Causes
of the First World War
The Schlieffen
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Trench Warfare
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Home Front
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The Soldier
by Rupert Brooke
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- If I should die,
think only this of me:
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That there's some corner of a foreign field
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England. There shall be
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In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
- A dust whom England
bore, shaped, made aware,
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Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
- A body of England's,
breathing English air,
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Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
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And
think, this heart, all evil shed away,
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A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
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Gives
somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
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Her
sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
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And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
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In
hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
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