A Nation Once Again was voted the world's most popular song according to a BBC World Service global poll of listeners, ahead of "Vande Mataram", the national song of India. Davis copied the melody for the chorus from the second movement of Mozart's clarinet concerto. The lyrics use a simple ABABCDCD rhyme scheme, with verses of eight lines, and alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter. Davis describes how he learned of ancient fighters for freedom as a boy — the three hundred Spartans who fought at the Battle of Thermopylae. The "three men" may refer to Horatius Cocles and his two companions
I do not like thee, Doctor Fell known Roman epigramist), his expulsion would be cancelled. The epigram in Latin is as follows: Brown made the impromptu English translation which became the verse: The nursery rhyme "I do not like thee, Doctor Fell" was not included in Mother Goose collections until 1926, following the rhyme's inclusion in "Less-Familiar Nursery Rhymes" by Robert Graves of I, Claudius fame. I do not like thee, Doctor Fell I do not like thee, Doctor Fell is a nursery rhyme, said to have been written by satirical English poet Tom Brown in 1680. The anecdote associated with the origin of the rhyme is