<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384621" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Englishman</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Born in the flesh, and bred in the bone,<br>Some of us harbour still<br>A New World pride: and we flaunt or hide<br>The Spirit of Bunker Hill.<br>We claim our place, as a separate race,<br>Or a self-created clan:<br>Till there comes a day when we like to say,<br>'We are kin of the Englishman.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>For under the front that seems so cold,<br>And the voice that is wont to storm,<br>We are certain to find a big, broad mind<br>And a heart that is soft and warm.<br>And he carries his woes in a lordly way,<br>As only the great souls can:<br>And it makes us glad when in truth we say,<br>'We are kin of the Englishman.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>He slams his door in the face of the world,<br>If he thinks the world too bold.<br>He will even curse; but he opens his purse<br>To the poor, and the sick, and the old.<br>He is slow in giving to woman the vote,<br>And slow to pick up her fan;<br>But he gives her room in an hour of doom,<br>And dies-like an Englishman.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ella+Wheeler+Wilcox">Ella Wheeler Wilcox</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=384621" data-title="The Englishman de Ella Wheeler Wilcox" data-description="Born in the flesh, and bred in the bone, Some of us harbour still A New World pride: and we flaunt or hide The Spirit of Bunker Hill. We claim our place, as a separate race, Or a self-created clan: Till there comes a day when we like to say, 'We a..."></div> </div> </div>

solid border dashed border dotted border double border groove border ridge border inset border outset border no border blue green red purple cyan gold silver black