<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117920" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Geography</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The earth is a place on which England is found,<br>And you find it however you twirl the globe round;<br>For the spots are all red and the rest is all grey,<br>And that is the meaning of Empire Day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gibraltar's a rock that you see very plain,<br>And attached to its base is the district of Spain.<br>And the island of Malta is marked further on,<br>Where some natives were known as the Knights of St. John.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then Cyprus, and east to the Suez Canal,<br>That was conquered by Dizzy and Rothschild his pal<br>With the Sword of the Lord in the old English way:<br>And that is the meaning of Empire Day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our principal imports come far as Cape Horn;<br>For necessities, cocoa; for luxuries, corn;<br>Thus Brahmins are born for the rice-field, and thus,<br>The Gods made the Greeks to grow currants for us;<br>Of earth's other tributes are plenty to choose,<br>Tobacco and petrol and Jazzing and Jews:<br>The Jazzing will pass but the Jews they will stay;<br>And that is the meaning of Empire Day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our principle exports, all labelled and packed,<br>At the ends of the earth are delivered intact:<br>Our soap or our salmon can travel in tins<br>Between the two poles and as like as two pins;<br>So that Lancashire merchants whenever they like<br>Can water the beer of a man in Klondike<br>Or poison the meat of a man in Bombay;<br>And that is the meaning of Empire Day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The day of St. George is a musty affair<br>Which Russians and Greeks are permitted to share;<br>The day of Trafalgar is Spanish in name<br>And the Spaniards refuse to pronounce it the same;<br>But the day of the Empire from Canada came<br>With Morden and Borden and Beaverbrook's fame<br>And saintly seraphical souls such as they:<br>And that is the meaning of Empire Day.</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=117920" data-title="Geography de G.K. Chesterton" data-description="The earth is a place on which England is found,/And you find it however you twirl the globe round;/For the spots are all red and the rest is all grey,/And that is the meaning of Empire Day./Gibraltar's a rock that you see very plain,/And attached ..."></div> </div> </div>

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