<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=511067" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Pirates in England</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Saxon Invasion, A.D. 400-600</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>When Rome was rotten-ripe to her fall,<br>And the sceptre passed from her hand,<br>The pestilent Picts leaped over the wall<br>To harry the English land.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The little dark men of the mountain and waste,<br>So quick to laughter and tears,<br>They came panting with hate and haste<br>For the loot of five hundred years.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They killed the trader, they sacked the shops,<br>They ruined temple and town--<br>They swept like wolves through the standing crops<br>Crying that Rome was down.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They wiped out all that they could find<br>Of beauty and strength and worth,<br>But they could not wipe out the Viking's Wind<br>That brings the ships from the North.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They could not wipe out the North-East gales<br>Nor what those gales set free--<br>The pirate ships with their close-reefed sails,<br>Leaping from sea to sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They had forgotten the shield-hung hull<br>Seen nearer and more plain,<br>Dipping into the troughs like a gull,<br>And gull-like rising again--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The painted eyes that glare and frown <br>In the high snake-headed stem,<br>Searching the beach while her sail comes down,<br>They had forgotten them!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There was no Count of the Saxon Shore<br>To meet her hand to hand,<br>As she took the beach with a grind and a roar,<br>And the pirates rushed inland!</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=511067" data-title="The Pirates in England de Rudyard Kipling" data-description="Saxon Invasion, A.D. 400-600 When Rome was rotten-ripe to her fall, And the sceptre passed from her hand, The pestilent Picts leaped over the wall To harry the English land. The little dark men of the mountain and waste, So quick to laughter an..."></div> </div> </div>

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