<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510953" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Declaration of London</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the reassembling of Parliament after the Coronation, the Government have no intention of allowing their followers to vote according to their convictions on the Declaration of London, but insist on a strictly party vote.-- Daily Papers</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>We were all one heart and one race<br>When the Abbey trumpets blew.<br>For a moment's breathing-space<br>We had forgotten you.<br>Now you return to your honoured place<br>Panting to shame us anew.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We have walked with the Ages dead--<br>With our Past alive and ablaze.<br>And you bid us pawn our honour for bread,<br>This day of all the days!<br>And you cannot wait till our guests are sped,<br>Or last week's wreath decays?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The light is still in our eyes<br>Of Faith and Gentlehood,<br>Of Service and Sacrifice;<br>And it does not match our mood,<br>To turn so soon to your treacheries<br>That starve our land of her food.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our ears still carry the sound<br>Of our once-Imperial seas,<br>Exultant after our King was crowned,<br>Beneath the sun and the breeze.<br>It is too early to have them bound<br>Or sold at your decrees.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wait till the memory goes,<br>Wait till the visions fade,<br>We may betray in time, God knows,<br>But we would not have it said,<br>When you make report to our scornful foes,<br>That we kissed as we betrayed!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rudyard+Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</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=510953" data-title="The Declaration of London de Rudyard Kipling" data-description="On the reassembling of Parliament after the Coronation, the Government have no intention of allowing their followers to vote according to their convictions on the Declaration of London, but insist on a strictly party vote.-- Daily Papers We were..."></div> </div> </div>

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