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Carry on England
Contributed by
AEWorricker
on
Sunday, 22nd August 2010 @ 05:34:14 AM in AEST
Topic:
Patriotic
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My England is all but gone She exists only in a Carry on Or in a name carved on a memorial stone And locked in memories in an old folks home.
My England was Sid James laugh It is the veterans marching past the cenotaph She is the defiant words of Churchills speeches She is long faded boot prints on Normandy beaches .
My England lay in the bosom of Hattie Jacques She is 54896 names inscribed on the Menin gate She is the England of Blood and toil She is the bones that lay scattered beneath Flanders soil.
My England is Kenneth Williams tragic camp She is the death of a poet in a D-Day tank She is the England of Tears and sweat She is Dianas funeral. It is why I wept.
My England is clumsy hero Jim Dale She is the Little Armada of ships waiting to sail She is in the hands that fought Blitzkrieg fire She is khaki strands blowing on Passchendaele, wire.
My England was Charles Hawtreys eccentric clown It is a radio message from Goose Green Sunray down It is our very cliffs that are crumbling with time It is in every note of Enigma variations number nine.
My England will no longer Carry on She is an afternoon matinee that no one turns on.
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Re: Carry on England
(User Rating: 1 ) by Daniellemarie on
Sunday, 22nd August 2010 @ 01:14:01 PM AEST (User
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very nice poem
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Re: Carry on England
(User Rating: 1 ) by thebadguy9999 on
Sunday, 22nd August 2010 @ 05:07:10 PM AEST (User
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nice |
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