The ‘die is cast’ and Civil War
For seven long years the Nation tore.
Civil Wars 1642–1648
CROMWELL greatest of the foemen
With his faithful English Yeomen;
These ‘Roundheads’ sober, grim, religious
To ‘Cavaliers’ gave blows prodigious.
Their character’s seen in the cry
‘Trust God and keep your powder dry.’
Naseby 1645
The Cavaliers and Roundheads fought
In many a field, ’till Naseby brought
To Generals Cromwell and Fairfax
A crowning victory, though not ‘pax.’
The King’s beheaded, but the State
Experiences no headless fate;
A commonwealth’s forthwith proclaimed
And Cromwell’s soon Protector named.
Dunbar 1650
In sixteen-fifty Dunbar sees
The Royal Scots brought to their knees;
And in the second Worcester fight
Cromwell for good asserts his might.