A Humorous History of England

A few sample paragraphs from the eBook is as follows:-


“Arms and the man” was Virgil’s strain;

But we propose in lighter vein

To browse a crop from pastures (Green’s)

Of England’s Evolution scenes.

Who would from facts prognosticate

The future progress of this State,

Must own the chiefest fact to be

Her escalator is the Sea.


Prehistoric

HISTORIANS erudite and sage,

When writing of the past stone age,

Tell us man once was clothed in skins

And tattooed patterns on his shins.

Rough bearded and with shaggy locks

He lived in dug-outs in the rocks.

Was often scared and run to earth

By creatures of abnormal girth:

Mammoths and monsters; truth to tell

We find their names too long to spell.

He joined in little feuds no doubt;

And with his weapons fashioned out

Of flint, went boldly to the fray;

And cracked a skull or two per day.


Druids

WE read of priests of Celtic day,

Ancient Druids, holding sway

By smattering of Occult law

And man’s eternal sense of awe.

Stonehenge

They used Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain

Reputed Prehistoric Fane;

Note each megalithic boulder;

No Monument in Europe’s older.