Remember, remember the Fifth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,
I know of no reason
Why the gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.

Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t’was his intent
To blow up the King and Parli’ment.
Three-score barrels of powder below
To prove old England’s overthrow;
By God’s providence he was catch’d
With a dark lantern and burning match.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, let the bells ring.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!

Alan Moore

Tags: king treason november english-history gunpowder

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For the space of half a year, the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand, because no fire came near to explode it.

Emily Brontë

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What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind.

Wendell Phillips

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