Rudyard Kipling England Quotations

Of all the trees that grow so fair, / Old England to adorn, / Greater are none beneath the Sun, / Than Oak and Ash and Thorn.

What stands if Freedom fall? / Who dies if England live?

Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing - 'Oh how beautiful!' and sitting in the shade, While better men than we go out and start their working lives At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner knives

The coastwise lights of England watch the ships of England go!

Those who only know England know not England.

What stands if Freedom fail? What dies of England live?

And what should they know of England who only England know?

If England was what England seems, And not the England of our dreams; But only putty, brass, and paint, 'Ow we'd chuck 'er- but she ain't!