Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead (tinnies)
In group G there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest Gareth and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the Trippier;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with Vard-flavor'd rage;
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
Let pry through the portage of the head
Like the class Rashford; let the brow o'erwhelm it
As fearfully as doth a galled rock
O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,
Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Now set the teeth and stretch the Belgians wide,
Hold hard the ale-breath and bend up every spirit
To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.
Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!
Fathers that, like so many Alexander Oxlaide-Chamberlains
Have in these parts from morn till even fought
And sheathed their swords for lack of VAargument:
Dishonour not your mothers; now attest
That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you.
Be copy now to men of grosser blood,
And teach them how to score. And you, good Jordan
Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;
For there is none of you so mean and base,
(Apart from Delli Alli) That hath not an acceptable 0-0 in your eyes.
I see you stand like Romford greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afooty:
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry 'God for both Harry's England, and Saint George!'