as Marion says, very Kipling-esque - but it almost needs another verse, about the ones who *don't* leave. The Roman centurion who took his retirement acres in Britannia and built a villa, the Irish navvy who married the lass in Liverpool, the Polish airman who stayed in Britain to work the mines because his homeland, having been freed from German rule, was now under Russian rule, etc.
One thing these islands of ours are very good at is taking in wave after wave of "invaders" and absorbing them, *making* them "British" - and their legacy remains too.
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Date: 2008-07-15 08:06 am (UTC)One thing these islands of ours are very good at is taking in wave after wave of "invaders" and absorbing them, *making* them "British" - and their legacy remains too.