<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117919" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>History</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Roman threw us a road, a road,<br>And sighed and strolled away:<br>The Saxon gave us a raid, a raid,<br>A raid that came to stay;<br>The Dane went west, but the Dane confessed<br>That he went a bit too far;<br>And we all became, by another name,<br>The Imperial race we are.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Imperial race, the inscrutable race,<br>The invincible race we are.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though Sussex hills are bare, are bare,<br>And Sussex weald is wide,<br>From Chichester to Chester<br>Men saw the Norman ride;<br>He threw his sword in the air and sang<br>To a sort of a light guitar;<br>It was all the same, for we all became<br>The identical nobs we are.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The identical nobs, individual nobs,<br>Unmistakable nobs we are.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The people lived on the land, the land,<br>They pottered about and prayed;<br>They built a cathedral here and there<br>Or went on a small crusade:<br>Till the bones of Becket were bundled out<br>For the fun of a fat White Czar,<br>And we all became, in spoil and flame,<br>The intelligent lot we are.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The intelligent lot, the intuitive lot,<br>The infallible lot we are.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O Warwick woods are green, are green,<br>But Warwick trees can fall:<br>And Birmingham grew so big, so big,<br>And Stratford stayed so small.<br>Till the hooter howled to the morning lark<br>That sang to the morning star:<br>And we all became, in freedom's name,<br>The fortunate chaps we are.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The fortunate chaps, felicitous chaps,<br>The fairy-like chaps we are.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The people, they left the land, the land,<br>But they went on working hard:<br>And the village green that had got mislaid<br>Turned up in the squire's back-yard:<br>But twenty men of us all got work<br>On a bit of his motor car;<br>And we all became, with the world's acclaim,<br>The marvellous mugs we are:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The marvellous mugs, miraculous mugs,<br>The mystical mugs we are.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=G.K.+Chesterton">G.K. Chesterton</a> from <i>Songs of Education</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117919" data-title="History de G.K. Chesterton" data-description="The Roman threw us a road, a road,/And sighed and strolled away:/The Saxon gave us a raid, a raid,/A raid that came to stay;/The Dane went west, but the Dane confessed/That he went a bit too far;/And we all became, by another name,/The Imperial ra..."></div> </div> </div>

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