THE CROSS OF ST.GEORGE

Remember when it was flown

On church towers only

For special occasions,deaths,

Holy festivals and Shakespeare’s birthday

   A red cross on a white ground

The cross of St.George

Few noticed it

Fluttering above the grave-stones and the lynchgate

  Now it is everywhere

Not just in ones,

But twos and threes and fours,

Streaming out behind cars,trucks,lorries and white vans

   Why is it everywhere?

What does it mark?

Why it’s for football

And to encourage England’s hopes of victory

  No dragons there then,

No maidens in distress

Only a saint for all purposes

One whose time will come again in four more years

                                                      by     Ann  Slatter     July 2006

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