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	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;
5	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.

Guided Reading Question 1
What has England done for this speaker?
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	And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
10		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.

Guided Reading Question 2
What will happen to the happy thoughts given to the speaker by England?
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