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Britannia in Cloaca Maxima Est-Britain's in the Sewer

He’s risen! To Christendom everywhere, it’s been announced,

A victory for the poor and downtrodden, evil’s been trounced;

That crucified carpenter’s son did not suffer in vain,

Said the Archbishop-who’d sided with slanderers, dealers of pain.

 

But the tool-maker’s son does not care about justice and light,

Nor turds in the Thames, nor nurses, nor the school-teachers’ plight;

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