Oh!what a mysteryThe study is of history!How the kings go ravagingAnd savaging about!Plantagenet or Tudor,I can’t tell which was ruder;But Richard Third,Upon my word,Was worst of all the rout.Alfred was a hero,Knew no guile nor fear, oh!Beat the Danes and checked the Thanes,And ruled the country well.Edward First, the Hammer,Was a slaughterer and slammer,And Bruce aloneSaved Scotland’s throne,When ’neath his blows it fell.Edward Third was great, too,Early fought and late, too;Drove the FrenchFrom Cressy’s trenchLike leaves before the blast.But Harry Fifth, the glorious,He the all-victorious,He’s the oneI’d serve alone,From first unto the last.Oh! what a mysteryThe study is of history!Queens and kings,And wars and things,All done in black and white.Though sometimes a trifle bloody,’Tis my best beloved study,For only soOne learns, you know,To govern and to fight!
Oh!what a mysteryThe study is of history!How the kings go ravagingAnd savaging about!Plantagenet or Tudor,I can’t tell which was ruder;But Richard Third,Upon my word,Was worst of all the rout.Alfred was a hero,Knew no guile nor fear, oh!Beat the Danes and checked the Thanes,And ruled the country well.Edward First, the Hammer,Was a slaughterer and slammer,And Bruce aloneSaved Scotland’s throne,When ’neath his blows it fell.Edward Third was great, too,Early fought and late, too;Drove the FrenchFrom Cressy’s trenchLike leaves before the blast.But Harry Fifth, the glorious,He the all-victorious,He’s the oneI’d serve alone,From first unto the last.Oh! what a mysteryThe study is of history!Queens and kings,And wars and things,All done in black and white.Though sometimes a trifle bloody,’Tis my best beloved study,For only soOne learns, you know,To govern and to fight!
Oh!what a mysteryThe study is of history!How the kings go ravagingAnd savaging about!Plantagenet or Tudor,I can’t tell which was ruder;But Richard Third,Upon my word,Was worst of all the rout.
Oh!what a mystery
The study is of history!
How the kings go ravaging
And savaging about!
Plantagenet or Tudor,
I can’t tell which was ruder;
But Richard Third,
Upon my word,
Was worst of all the rout.
Alfred was a hero,Knew no guile nor fear, oh!Beat the Danes and checked the Thanes,And ruled the country well.Edward First, the Hammer,Was a slaughterer and slammer,And Bruce aloneSaved Scotland’s throne,When ’neath his blows it fell.
Alfred was a hero,
Knew no guile nor fear, oh!
Beat the Danes and checked the Thanes,
And ruled the country well.
Edward First, the Hammer,
Was a slaughterer and slammer,
And Bruce alone
Saved Scotland’s throne,
When ’neath his blows it fell.
Edward Third was great, too,Early fought and late, too;Drove the FrenchFrom Cressy’s trenchLike leaves before the blast.But Harry Fifth, the glorious,He the all-victorious,He’s the oneI’d serve alone,From first unto the last.
Edward Third was great, too,
Early fought and late, too;
Drove the French
From Cressy’s trench
Like leaves before the blast.
But Harry Fifth, the glorious,
He the all-victorious,
He’s the one
I’d serve alone,
From first unto the last.
Oh! what a mysteryThe study is of history!Queens and kings,And wars and things,All done in black and white.Though sometimes a trifle bloody,’Tis my best beloved study,For only soOne learns, you know,To govern and to fight!
Oh! what a mystery
The study is of history!
Queens and kings,
And wars and things,
All done in black and white.
Though sometimes a trifle bloody,
’Tis my best beloved study,
For only so
One learns, you know,
To govern and to fight!