Y Rhyfel
Byd Cyntaf
1914 -1918

Gwers 4

" 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."

'The Soldier', by Rupert Brooke. Although this poem was famous during the first World War, Rupert Brooke actually died in the Middle East in 1915. This was away from the trench warfare of the Western Front in France and Belgium. He died before the horrors of the Battles of Verdun and the Somme.