HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF.
The path which we in Britain have now to tread is steep and may be long, but it is not new to us, -writes Lord Elton. It is the path of Drake and the Armada, of Nelson and the flotilla of Boulogne. Let those who have not realised with what uncanny, faithfulness history is repeating itself glance through the splendid series of sonnets which Wordsworth wrote in 1802 and 1803. Every feature of the landscape is there—from the nations, “who henceforth must wear their fetters in their souls’’ to the coast of France “drawn almost into frightful neighbourhood.” And then as now the chief fury of the storm seemed likely to fall upon-Kent: No parleying now! In Britain is one breath; We all are with you now from shore to shore. . Ye men of Kent, ’tis victory or death. The old perils confront us, but even more menacing; the old stakes are to be played for, hut higher now than ever. It is the old enemy who assails us, but in another guise. London has made it clear that the old qualities are there to meet him.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 38, 25 November 1940, Page 4
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