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The English love their country with a love Steady, and simple, wordless, dignified; I think it sets their patriotism above All others. We Americans have pride-- We glory in our country's short romance. We boast of it and love it. Frenchmen, when The ultimate menace comes, will die for France Logically as they lived. But Englishmen Will serve day after day, obey the law, And do dull tasks that keep a nation strong. Once I remember in London how I saw Pale shabby people standing in a long Line in the twilight and the misty rain To pay their tax. I then saw England plain.