Social Commentaries
The Englishman
From Songs of a Savoyard (1920 Macmillan Bab Ballads edition)
Social Commentaries
He is an Englishman!
For he himself has said it,
And it’s greatly to his credit,
That he is an Englishman!
For he might have been a Roosian,
A French, or Turk, or Proosian,
Or perhaps Itali-an!
But in spite of all temptations,
To belong to other nations,
He remains an Englishman!
Hurrah!
For the true-born Englishman!
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MLA
Gilbert, W. S. “The Englishman.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/gilbert/1/.
Chicago
Gilbert, W. S. “The Englishman.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/gilbert/1/.
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