The Soldier

from To Insanity, and Beyond by Pyre

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lyrics

I heard my country calling, away across the sea,
Across the waste of waters she calls and calls to me.

If I should fall, should thy heart break,
Think only this: “for England’s sake!”

If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England.
In that rich earth, a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Her ways to roam, breathing English air.

Her sword is girded at her side, her helmet on her head,
And round her feet are lying the dying and the dead.
I hear the noise of battle, the thunder of her guns,
I haste to thee my mother, a son among thy sons.

Sneak home and pray you'll never know
The Hell where youth and laughter go.

credits

from To Insanity, and Beyond, track released October 25, 2018
Lyrics by Rupert Brooke, Rifleman S. Donald Cox, Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, and Siegfried Sassoon.