“wert thou the unicorn, pride and wrath would confound thee and make thine own self the conquest of thy fury” W. Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, Act 4, scene 3, c. line 341
Oh Beautiful England,
Green maid
Longed for
By warriors
And nomads
And traders
And workers
And dreamers
From Abroad,
Whose Children,
Sometimes blond
Often not,
Have turned you
Into a mirror,
Into a mirror
Of the World,
Tell your sister,
The other England,
Who still believes St George
Was from Windsor
Or Newcastle
Or St Albans
Or Stoke,
Tell her,
For our peace of mind,
Tell her
Who her real parents were.
Tell her
That it’s millions,
Many millions,
Of all tongues,
Who make you
Very fertile,
Who balance
All her books.
Tell her
To stop drinking
Gin and tonic and Pimm’s.
Tell her
To sober up to reality
Tell her
To embrace
Her Foreign Kith and Kin.
Copyright © 2016. Tony Martin-Woods
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Painting: Happy unicorn and a naked virgin. Rothschild Canticles. Flanders 14th century. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 404, fol. 51r from by Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516). Source: https://uk.pinterest.com/elenakarasiova/
