A moth-eaten rag on a worm-eaten pole,
 It does not look likely to a stir a man's soul,
 'Tis the deeds that were done 'neath the moth-eaten rag,
 When the pole was a staff, and the rag was a flag.
  
 - Sir Edward Hamley (27 April 1824 – 12 August 1893) 
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