When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
Rudyard Kipling, from the poem “The Gods of the Copybook Headings” (1919).
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: ‘Stick to the Devil you know.’
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