Not a Flanders field, but a field near the brewery. Not intended to be here, these Poppies nonetheless added some colour to the farm (and where visible on the approach to Royston from the north). And so they were allowed to remain. A timely reminder for the 11th of November, lest we forget.
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is forever 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
Rupert Brooke
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In hearts at peace, under an English heaven....
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The Bloggering Brewer
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