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The will of the people, the will of the people 

Village green cricket, Jerusalem steeples
Miniver choir-song, chip butty seagulls
Elizabeth's corgis, Shakespeare and the Beatles

The will of the people, the will of the people
A vote barely clinched by fine twitch of a needle
Proud Unionists gloomy but flag-wavers gleeful
Stuff Juncker and Merkel euu twin-headed evils

The will of the people, the will of the people
This shriek popping eardrums from Strasbourg to Schipol
Commissioners panic, bells clang through cathedrals
Whilst headlines scream dread in Le Monde and Der Speigel

The will of the people, the will of the people
Our table is set yet the menu's deceitful
There's an entrée of turmoil, the main reads "upheaval":
Just inedible hash masked with diplomat's treacle

The will of the people, oh the will of the people
Dunkerque and Hong Kong ring like faraway prequels
May-Boudicca's trigger be ready and regal
Her nation's uncertain: emboldened...enfeebled?