Community is a fashionable word and gets media attention,

But the English Working Poor is one that never gets a mention.

 

Others and their brothers tend to riot in the street,

But the English Working Poor get on in the hope that they'll meet

 

Triumph and Disaster (those two imposters!) just the same,

Well aware that life's dull care is rarely without blame.

 

You'll find them carrying the banner when tyranny shows its face,

Because they know the land they love would deny a tyrant space.

 

In Britain they have put the "Great" with fierce pride in their old land,

And serve to keep its backbone straight when war strikes up the band.

 

They know their place far beyond the way it keeps them at the door,

And quietly go about proud lives - the English Working Poor.

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