Stonehenge
They used Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain
Reputed Prehistoric Fane;
Note each megalithic boulder;
No Monument in Europe’s older.
Phœnicians
MERCHANT explorers of that day,
Hustling Phœnicians, 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 Cæsar B.C. 55
Till Julius Cæsar in five-five
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.