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My Son, Go and Fight for Your Motherland

Raemaekers, Louis, 1916, Chromolithograph
My Son, Go and Fight for Your Motherland
My Son, Go and Fight for Your Motherland
My Son, Go and Fight for Your Motherland
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32978
Title
My Son, Go and Fight for Your Motherland
Description
"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'
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

'The Soldier.' A sonnet by Rupert Brooke in '1914 and other Poems.' London, 1915. By kind permission of the Literary Executor and Messrs. Sidgwick and Jackson. Ltd."
Artist / maker
Date
1916
Size
34.4 x 23.8 cm
Location
Art and Design Library
Copyright
Louis Raemaekaers' drawings are reproduced by kind permission of the Louis Raemaekers Foundation.