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.
[1] Written with fourteen lines in a Petrarchan sonnet form, the poem is divided into an opening octet, and then followed by a concluding sestet.
It does not go truly into detail about a predicament or resolution, as is customary with this form; rather, the atmosphere remains constantly in the blissful state of the English soldier.
Prior to the first Moon landing in 1969, William Safire prepared a speech for Richard Nixon to give in case of disaster.
[2][3] The same lines were also used in the lyrics of Pink Floyd's "The Gunner's Dream" (1983, on The Final Cut)[4] and Al Stewart's "Somewhere in England 1915" (2005, on A Beach Full of Shells).