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Beneath: under
Strange: unknown

In the first line the poet says that no men are strange, and no country is
foreign. So, he is attempting to remove the borders from the Earth which
have been erected to separate different countries. Then only no country
will be foreign. We will feel every country as our own land when there
will be no borders, everyone will be free to move around.

The poet wants to say that the entire Earth is one and all the people who
live on this Earth belong to one human race. Then he says that inside
the uniforms worn by soldiers of different countries, the human being is
the same. God has made all of us in a similar way. All breathe in the
same way. Then he says that all the soldiers are our brothers – we all
walk upon the same ‘Mother Earth’ and upon our death, shall lie in the
grave in the same Earth.

Stanza 2

They, too, aware of sun and air and water,
Are fed by peaceful harvests, by war’s long winter starv’d.
Their hands are ours, and in their lines we read
A labour not different from our own.

‘They’ refers to those people who belong to other countries. We call
them foreigners and discriminate them and fight with them also. The
poet says that nature has given all the bounties to all people also just
like he has given to us. Everyone gets sunlight, air and water in equal
measure which means that God does not differentiate between people
from different countries. We all do farming during the time of peace,
when there is no war. We live a relaxed life and eat the things given to
us by nature. Further, he adds that the way we starve during wars and