Just a small part of this World of your Nation you brag <br />And you wave your patriotism in your National flag <br />If your team win the International game today <br />Your boss won't give you extra in your next week's pay. <br /> <br />You feel so indifferent to people from elsewhere <br />Remember there's a World called the big World out there <br />And united we stand and divided we fall <br />Those words apply to all Nations and to one and all. <br /> <br />Tonight in the bar-room you will drink till late <br />And with your pub friends today's win celebrate <br />A win for your Nation in such a big game <br />Though only the players involved in the victory will know of the fame <br /> <br />And the financial windfall to them that this victory will bring <br />And of their praises you and those like you do sing <br />And are the supporters of the losing team worse off than you <br />Your pride in a flag tell me that is not true? <br /> <br />For pride of their flag young men go to war <br />And in victory boast of how marvellous they are <br />And for pride of their flag far too many have died <br />And so much division created by pride.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/your-pride-in-a-flag/
