They used Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain
Reputed Prehistoric Fane;
Note each megalithic boulder;
No Monument in Europe's older.

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[Illustration: "Veni, Vidi, Vici"]

Phoenicians Merchant explorers of that day,
Hustling Phoenicians, came this way
To ship tin ore from Cornish mines
Three thousand years before these lines.
But still in spite of petty strife
Man lived what's termed the 'simple life'
Julius Caesar Till Julius Caesar in five-five
B.C. 55 With his galleys did arrive.
He wrote despatches of the best,
'Veni, Vidi' and the rest,
Sending the news of victory home;
And flags then fluttered high in Rome.
His 'photo' one plain fact discloses
He brought in fashion Roman noses.
Of this great General 'tis allowed
The best 'Life' is by J. A. Froude.
Boadicea Boadicea earns our praise.
A.D. 62 First woman leader in those days;
For Freedom strove all she could do,
'Twas lost in A.D. sixty-two.
Agricola Then came Agricola one day
And gained a battle near the Tay.
He started trimming up this isle,
And laid out roads in Roman style.
East, North, South, West, it's safe to say
His handiwork is traced to-day.
The Natives too were taught to know
By busy merchants' constant flow
The wisdom that great Empire held;
Their ignorance was thus dispelled.
Romans left About four hundred-ten A.D.
A.D. 410 The Romans left sans ceremonie.
Can it be wondered at when Rome
Was needing help 'gainst Huns at home.
Our antiquarians often find
The relics which they left behind;
A Villa here and pavement there,
Coins galore and Roman ware.

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Anglo-Saxons And so we run our flippant rhymes
A.D. 430 Right on to Anglo-Saxon times.
Hengist and Horsa with their men
Came from their Jutish pirate den,
Jutes