English Poetry. William Schwenck Gilbert. Songs of a Savoyard. The Englishman. Уильям Швенк Гильберт.

William Schwenck Gilbert (Уильям Швенк Гильберт)

Songs of a Savoyard. The Englishman

  He is an Englishman!
        For he himself has said it,
        And it's greatly to his credit,
  That he is an Englishman!
        For he might have been a Roosian,
        A French, or Turk, or Proosian,
  Or perhaps Itali-an!
        But in spite of all temptations,
        To belong to other nations,
  He remains an Englishman!
        Hurrah!
  For the true born Englishman!

William Schwenck Gilbert’s other poems:

1. The Bab Ballads. The Phantom Curate
2. The Bab Ballads. The Sensation Captain
3. The Bab Ballads. Gentle Alice Brown
4. The Bab Ballads. Lorenzo de Lardy
5. The Bab Ballads. The Yarn of the “Nancy Bell”

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