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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=400530" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Songs of Education</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I. HISTORY</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Form 991785, Sub-Section D</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>II. GEOGRAPHY</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Form 17955301, Sub-Section Z</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>V. THE HIGHER MATHEMATICS</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Form 339125, Sub-Section M</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Twice one is two,<br>Twice two is four,<br>But twice two is ninety-six if you know the way to score.<br>Half of two is one,<br>Half of four is two,<br>But half of four is forty per cent. if your name is Montagu:<br>For everything else is on the square<br>If done by the best quadratics;<br>And nothing is low in High Finance<br>Or the Higher Mathematics.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A straight line is straight<br>And a square mile is flat:<br>But you learn in trigonometrics a trick worth two of that.<br>Two straight lines<br>Can't enclose a Space,<br>But they can enclose a Corner to support the Chosen Race:<br>For you never know what Dynamics do<br>With the lower truths of Statics;<br>And half of two is a touring car<br>In the Higher Mathematics.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is a place apart<br>Beyond the solar ray,<br>Where parallel straight lines can meet in an unofficial way.<br>There is a room that holds<br>The examiner or his clerks,<br>Where you can square the circle or the man that gives the marks.<br>Where you hide in the cellar and then look down<br>On the poets that live in the attics;<br>For the whole of the house is upside down<br>In the Higher Mathematics.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gilbert+Keith+Chesterton">Gilbert Keith Chesterton</a><div class=q>
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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;
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