England's on the anvil--hear the hammers ring-- <br /> Clanging from the Severn to the Tyne! <br />Never was a blacksmith like our Norman King-- <br /> England's being hammered, hammered, hammered into line! <br /> <br />England's on the anvil! Heavy are the blows! <br /> (But the work will be a marvel when it's done.) <br />Little bits of Kingdoms cannot stand against their foes. <br /> England's being hammered hammered, hammered into one! <br /> <br />There shall be one people--it shall serve one Lord-- <br /> (Neither Prist nor Baron shall escape!) <br />It shall have one speech and law, soul and strength and sword. <br /> England's being hammered, hammered, hammered into <br /> shape!<br /><br />Rudyard Kipling<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-anvil/
