StoryTitle("caps", "London Bridge (1066)") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It was almost an hundred years ago,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When Ethelred was King. This town of London", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Was held by Danes. Olaf the King of Norway", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Came with his host to fight for Ethelred", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And with his galleys rowed beneath the bridge,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lashed cables round the piers, and caught the tide", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That lent the strength of Ocean to their strength", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Rowing down-stream. Ah, how the strong oars beat", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The waters into foam—and how the Danes", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Above upon the bridge fought furiously", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With stones and arrows—but the bridge went down—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The bridge went down. So Ethelred was King.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And now the bridge has been built up again.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "'Tis not a thing of timbers, or hewn stone;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It is a weaving of men's hopes and dreams", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From shore to shore. It is a thing alive.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The men of Surrey and the men of Kent,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The men of Sussex and Northumberland,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The shepherds of the downs, the Wealden forges,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fishermen, packmen, bargemen, masons, all", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The traffickers of England, made our bridge.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It is a thing enchanted by the thoughts", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of all our people.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
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