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 Oh, to be in England,
 Now that April's there,
  And whoever wakes in England
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 Oh, to be in England,
 Now that April's there,
  And whoever wakes in England
   Sees some morning, unaware,
    That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf,
     Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf
      While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough
       In England--now. 
 Ah! the perfidious English!
 [Fr., Ah! la perfide Angleterre!]  
 Ah! the perfidious English!
 [Fr., Ah! la perfide Angleterre!] 
 Let Pitt then boast of his victory to his nation of 
shopkeepers--(Nation Boutiquiere).  
 Let Pitt then boast of his victory to his nation of 
shopkeepers--(Nation Boutiquiere). 
 Those pigmy tribes of Panton street,
 Those hardy blades, those hearts of oak,
  Obedient to a tyrant's read more 
 Those pigmy tribes of Panton street,
 Those hardy blades, those hearts of oak,
  Obedient to a tyrant's yoke. 
 Bind her, grind her, burn her with fire,
 Cast her ashes into the sea,--
  She shall escape, read more 
 Bind her, grind her, burn her with fire,
 Cast her ashes into the sea,--
  She shall escape, she shall aspire,
   She shall arise to make men free;
    She shall arise in a sacred scorn,
     Lighting the lives that are yet unborn,
      Spirit supernal, splendor eternal,
       England! 
 If I should die, think only this of me:
 That there's some corner of a foreign field
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 If I should die, think only this of me:
 That there's some corner of a foreign field
  That is forever England. There shall be
   In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
    A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
     Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
      A body of England's, breathing English air,
       Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. 
 This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only 
an organizing genius could produce a shortage read more 
 This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only 
an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at 
the same time. 
The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.
The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.
 The men of England--the men, I mean of light and leading in 
England.  
 The men of England--the men, I mean of light and leading in 
England.