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Happy is England

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

England My England – William Ernest Henley

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

Shakespeare, “King Richard II”, Act 2 scene 1

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

Rudyard Kipling – England’s Answer

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