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The Rolling English Road

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Poem by G.K. Chesterton from 1913 celebrating the winding roads made by English drunkards and resistance to French straightening.

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"Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode, The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road. A reeling road, a rolling road, that rambles round the shire, And after him the parson ran, the sexton and the squire; A merry road, a mazy road, and such as we did tread The night we we"
"The Rolling English Road" by G.K. Chesterton · u/124876720 · ↑33 · 2021-11-12
"From *New Witness*, 1913"
"The Rolling English Road" by G.K. Chesterton · u/124876720 · ↑33 · 2021-11-12
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