God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World (Vintage) by Walter Russell Mead

Author:Walter Russell Mead [Mead, Walter Russell]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780307472724
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2008-10-13T16:00:00+00:00

When Britain really ruled the waves

(In good Queen Bess’s time)

The House of Peers made no pretence

To intellectual eminence

Or scholarship sublime.

Yet Britain won her proudest bays

In good Queen Bess’s glorious days!

When Wellington thrashed Bonaparte

As every child can tell

The House of Peers throughout the war

Did nothing in particular

And did it very well.

Yet Britain set the world ablaze

In good King George’s glorious days.

And while the House of Peers withholds

Its legislative hand

And noble statesmen do not itch

To interfere in matters which

They do not understand

As bright will shine Great Britain’s rays

As in King George’s glorious days.4

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