A Decent Folk

 

We must not allow ourselves to be corrupted by the 

age we live in

Nor to be the victims of fear and the words

of endless discouragement

We are a decent and compassionate people

often misled

But we remain who we are, a people who recognise

what is good and right

A people prepared to defend freedom and justice

against tyranny and oppression

An island race not monochrome or bigotted

but those who pull together

We have given to the world our cherished language

and many aspects of our rich culture

From the height of Imperial Splendour we stand as equals

to those we have governed

Surely amongst our nation do we find

goodness, humility, gnerosity and kindness

and a willingness to say we were once wrong

but want to make amends