"At Runnymede, at Runnymede, Oh hear the reeds at Runnymede:— You mustn't sell, delay, deny, A freeman's right or liberty, It wakes the stubborn Englishry, We saw 'em roused at Runnymede!"
— Magna Carta

January 1, 1970

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Rudyard Kipling, 'The Reeds of Runnymede', in C. R. L. Fletcher and Rudyard Kipling, A School History of England (1911), p. 76