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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538924" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Anglicised Utopia</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses,<br>Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces.<br>(Divorce is nearly obsolete in England.)<br>No tolerance we show to undeserving rank and splendour;<br>For the higher his position is, the greater the offender.<br>(That's a maxim that is prevalent in England.)<br>No Peeress at our Drawing-Room before the Presence passes<br>Who wouldn't be accepted by the lower-middle classes;<br>Each shady dame, whatever be her rank, is bowed out neatly.<br>In short, this happy country has been Anglicised completely!<br>It really is surprising<br>What a thorough Anglicising<br>We've brought about - Utopia's quite another land;<br>In her enterprising movements,<br>She is England - with improvements,<br>Which we dutifully offer to our mother-land!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our city we have beautified - we've done it willy-nilly -<br>And all that isn't Belgrave Square is Strand and Piccadilly.<br>(They haven't any slummeries in England.)<br>We have solved the labour question with discrimination polished,<br>So poverty is obsolete and hunger is abolished -<br>(They are going to abolish it in England.)<br>The Chamberlain our native stage has purged, beyond a question,<br>Of &quot;risky&quot; situation and indelicate suggestion;<br>No piece is tolerated if it's costumed indiscreetly -<br>In short, this happy country has been Anglicised completely!<br>It really is surprising<br>What a thorough Anglicising<br>We've brought about - Utopia's quite another land;<br>In her enterprising movements,<br>She is England - with improvements,<br>Which we dutifully offer to our mother-land!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our Peerage we've remodelled on an intellectual basis,<br>Which certainly is rough on our hereditary races -<br>(They are going to remodel it in England.)<br>The Brewers and the Cotton Lords no longer seek admission,<br>And Literary Merit meets with proper recognition -<br>(As Literary Merit does in England!)<br>Who knows but we may count among our intellectual chickens<br>Like them an Earl of Thackeray and p'raps a Duke of Dickens -<br>Lord Fildes and Viscount Millais (when they come) we'll welcome<br>sweetly -<br>And then, this happy country will be Anglicised completely!<br>It really is surprising<br>What a thorough Anglicising<br>We've brought about - Utopia's quite another land;<br>In her enterprising movements,<br>She is England - with improvements,<br>Which we dutifully offer to our mother-land!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Schwenck+Gilbert">William Schwenck Gilbert</a><div class=q>
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Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces.
(Divorce is nearly obsolete in England.)
No tolerance we show to undeserving rank and splendour;
For the higher his position is, the greate..."></div>
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