Devotion to and vigorous support for one's country
is fair enough, as far as it goes, I suppose,
unless you consider the whole world to be my
country. Then it's a different matter.
The lexicon of patriotism is narrow
clipped, incomplete. Feudal relations
in the twenty-first century. Remember
these  House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
 can turn a trick and that's for sure.
I hate the fawning that goes on
There are plenty of good women
In these islands, most don't survive
to 96, & struggle to pay for their funeral.
In facing sister-death
we reach a commonality that is clearer
than those in the Putney debates
London   28 October 1647
after the declaration of the English republic