Originally posted by Mr Pee
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Venus here will choose her dwelling,
And forsake her Cyprian grove),
originate from centuries ago and, whilst I'd be the first to admit that "sceptr'd promontory" doesn't scan so elegantly as the Bard's original, Britain is now linked to the rest of mainland Europe by a tunnel that neither your map nor mine probably shows all that clearly, so its island status, whilst arguably not entirely rescinded thereby, is certainly now at the very least compromised.
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