Time for a poem? I've mentioned that this site will contain poems, so here's proof that there will be some unarguable quality here. Poets that I admire include Bill Shakespeare, John Milton, Herbert, Browning, Auden, Larkin and more. Here's one of Larkin's which ties in with the WoT- it really describes the ignominious retreat from the colonial years which, being abdicatory rather than responsive, bred the kind of people who today blow up themselves and other people. It was written in 1969, which gives me one more reason to declare that Larkin was a C20th prophet.

Homage to a Government
by
Philip Larkin

Next year we are to bring all the soldiers home
For lack of money, and it is all right.
Places they guarded, or kept orderly,
Must guard themselves, and keep themselves orderly.
We want the money for ourselves at home
Instead of working. And this is all right.

It's hard to say who wanted it to happen,
But now it's been decided nobody minds.
The places are a long way off, not here,
Which is all right, and from what we hear
The soldiers there only made trouble happen.
Next year we shall be easier in our minds.

Next year we shall be living in a country
That brought its soldiers home for lack of money.
The statues will be standing in the same
Tree-muffled squares, and look nearly the same.
Our children will not know it's a different country.
All we can hope to leave them now is money.