Keeping a Book of Centuries
  • welcome
    • About the Book of Centuries
  • in my notebook...
  • One Hundred Days
  • One Hundred Words
  • conversation
    • presentations
  • shop

In My Notebook...

In my Commonplace...

11/12/2012

3 Comments

 
 The  Soldier

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.



                                      --Rupert Brooke


3 Comments
Cochonfucius link
4/25/2013 09:40:28 pm

My French version :

Si je mourais, qu'il soit de moi mémoire,
Disant qu'un coin de champ à l'étranger
Est anglais pour toujours. La terre noire
S'enrichira d'un terreau moins léger ;

Terreau dont l'Angleterre a fait l'histoire
Avec ses fleurs, ses chemins passagers ;
Un corps d'Anglais dans son vivre et son boire
Et son soleil et son art de nager.

Pensez : ce coeur, que tout mal abandonne,
Battement d'absolu... pourtant redonne
À l'Angleterre un peu ce qu'il devait ;

La vue, le son, le bonheur dans les rêves,
Le rire des amis, la paix, sans trêve,
Dans la douceur d'un firmament anglais.




Reply
Laurie Bestvater
4/26/2013 02:15:01 am

Thank you! This is grand.

Reply
Rob_Graber
4/27/2013 10:16:25 am

My French is very modest; but to my ear, this is a superb job of casting iambic pentameter into French!

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    "Ideas 
    ​won't keep; something must be done about them."

     ~ Alfred Whitehead

     

    A Charlotte Mason education leads to all kinds of ideas! Join me in keeping one or several of the notebooks she prescribed and discover the Science of Relations and the Art of Mindfulness.

    Picture

    Laurie

    "Perhaps this is one of the secrets of life--to know 'glory' when we see it." 
     ~  Charlotte Mason

    Virtual Life?

    A wee explanation: this website was created as a way to amplify the daily surprise of seeing glory in one small life.  The notebook entries represented here are all selected from things actually lived and noted on paper in an effort to live the full life British educator Charlotte Mason so ably championed.  ​ 

    In Appreciation
    Images are linked to their original posts where possible.  They were chosen because I have found something of value there and hope my readers will likewise find a helpful resource as we explore the philosophy of Charlotte Mason together.  In the case of miss-attribution or if you desire your work not be linked, please let me know.

    Categories

    All
    Book Of Centuries
    Book Of Firsts
    Church Year
    Commonplace
    Copywork
    Enquire Within
    Fortitude Journal
    Gratitude Journal
    Keeping
    Music Notebook
    Nature Notebook
    Notebooks
    Picture File
    Poetry
    Prayer Journal
    Recipes

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
  • welcome
    • About the Book of Centuries
  • in my notebook...
  • One Hundred Days
  • One Hundred Words
  • conversation
    • presentations
  • shop