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    The Soldier
    The Soldier
    The Soldier
    Audiobook26 minutes

    The Soldier

    Written by Rupert Brooke

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    About this audiobook


    LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of The Soldier by Rupert Brooke. This poem was written, as the concluding part of a series of sonnets, on the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. Brooke, himself, died the following year on his way to a battle at Gallipoli.

    This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 8th, 2009.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
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