Tony Radford – the Coolest Englishman on the Planet

Happy is England! I could be content
To see no other verdure than its own;
To feel no other breezes than are blown

What have I done for you,
England, my England?
What is there I would not do,
England, my own?

And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England’s mountains green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
On England’s pleasant pastures seen?

This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars
This other Eden, demi-paradise

Truly ye come of The Blood; slower to bless than to ban;
Little used to lie down at the bidding of any man.
Flesh of the flesh that I bred, bone of the bone that I bare;
Stark as your sons shall be — stern as your fathers were