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THESE ARE THE DAYS

"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

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Yet Britain won her proudest boys

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 abiaze

In good King George's glorious days!"

(From "lolanthe")

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