Old words to a new air
John Bull, standing with one foot on England and the other on Ireland, holds strings attached to many warships which encircle the United Kingdom, while overhead fly menacing armed aircraft. Caption: “Britannia needs no bulwarks, no towers along the steep; / Her march is o’er the mountain wave, her home is on the deep.”
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This cover design, commencing the period when Puck routinely incorporated its logo into cover artwork, proved remarkably prescient.
