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The Decline of the British Empire
Whatever happens
We have got
Milton and Shakespeare
And they have not
But this is what
They have got:
A strong economy
And we have not
(Based on a bit of 19th
century triumphalist doggerel, attributed to Hilaire Belloc and others, about
the Maxim gun. And let The People shout, “Decolonize these lines!”)
