<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357746" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Our Rampant Coat-Of-Arms</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Lion and the Unicorn<br>Of England's Coat-of-Arms<br>Seldom make bold, so we are told,<br>To ravage English farms.<br>In fact, 'tis said by travellers<br>Who lately have been there,<br>That lions hardly ever roam<br>About the dales and dells at Home,<br>And unicorns are rare.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But in this topsy-turvy land<br>Where often - inter alia <br>Strange forms of bird, in ways absurd,<br> Are grafted to mammalia.<br>And beasts have bills to fit the goose,<br>Our crazy Coat-of-Arms breaks loose<br>To roam at night and play the deuce<br>'Mid farmers in Australia.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Lion and the Unicorn<br>Stay put and emplematic;<br>But kangaroos bluntly refuse<br>To function, staid and static.<br>And emus stray to ruin farms,<br>Raising excursions and alarms;<br>Which proves such things, on Coats-of-Arms<br>Are plainly too erratic.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Far better chain them to the shield<br>Like unicorns in Britain.<br>Else, by what chance may we 'advance'<br>As in the motto written?<br>If not, and they get out of hand,<br>Before the nations we must stand<br>Ever a topsy-turvy land<br>By its own emblem smitten.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</a><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=357746" data-title="Our Rampant Coat-Of-Arms de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="The Lion and the Unicorn Of England's Coat-of-Arms Seldom make bold, so we are told, To ravage English farms. In fact, 'tis said by travellers Who lately have been there, That lions hardly ever roam About the dales and dells at Home, And unicorns ..."></div> </div> </div>

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