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 ENGLAND ENGLAND 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. Rupert Brooke—The Soldier. | seealso = (See also under )

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{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 'Tis a glorious charter, deny it who can, That's breathed in the words, "I'm an Englishman." Eliza Cook—An Englishman. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Gilbert) England, with all thy faults, I love thee still-^My Country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee. | author = Cowper | work = Task. Bk. II. L. 206. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Churchill) | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = Without one friend, above all foes, Britannia gives the world repose. | author = Cowper | work = To Sir Joshua Reynolds. | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers. Benj. Disraeli—The Young Duke. Bk. I. Ch. XI. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Barbere) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail, Our lion now will foreign foes assail. Dryden—Astrcea Redux. L. 117. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 223 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = In these troublesome days when the great Mother Empire stands splendidly isolated in Europe. Hon. George Eulas Foster—Speech in the Canadian House of Commons. (Jan. 16, 1896.) | seealso = (See also {{sc|Goschen, Laurier, Potncare) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = Us s'amusaient tristement selon la coutume de leur pays. They [the English] amuse themselves sadly as is the custom of their country. Attributed to Froissart. Not found in his works. Same in Due de Sully's Memoirs (1630) ("Fusage" instead of "coutume. | author =  | work =  | place =  | note =  | topic =  | page = 223 }}