[DuncanWaring]

Rudyard Kipling’s “Gods of the Copybook Headings” is also appropriate.

Written a year after the end of The Great War, it foretold the next century.

http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_copybook.htm

[Mrs. Don-o]

When the Cambrian measures were forming,
They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons,
that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us
and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings
said: "Stick to the Devil you know."

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Right on the nose, Rudyard.