Poem by William Schwenck Gilbert

Songs of a Savoyard. The Englishman

  He is an Englishman!
        For he himself has said it,
        And it's greatly to his credit,
  That he is an Englishman!
        For he might have been a Roosian,
        A French, or Turk, or Proosian,
  Or perhaps Itali-an!
        But in spite of all temptations,
        To belong to other nations,
  He remains an Englishman!
        Hurrah!
  For the true born Englishman!

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2. The Bab Ballads. The Troubadour
3. The Bab Ballads. Thomas Winterbottom Hance
4. The Bab Ballads. General John
5. The Bab Ballads. To the Terrestrial Globe

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