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'''''Redundant''''' was a poem written by [[Brian Jacques]] in the early 1980s. The poem was written after UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her government began to [[Wikipedia:UK_miners%27_strike_(1984–85)|close mines all over England]], docks fell into disuse, and there was not enough work in the country.<br />
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''Redundant'' is mentioned by [[Patricia Lee Gauch]] in the [[Redwall: 20th Anniversary Gift Package|''Redwall'' U.S. 20th Anniversary Gift Package]]. <br />
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The Redwall Wiki believes that Brian Jacques wrote this poem to coincide with the [[1984]] Liverpool International Garden Festival, and that the following is this specific poem.<br />
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===Redundant===<br />
:I saw golden summer sunrise<br />
:Watched the river in full tide<br />
:From the gates of Herculaneum<br />
:All along the riverside<br />
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:Docks touched by the hand of time<br />
:Idle and redundant lay<br />
:Tinted golden pink from slumber<br />
:Liverpool stood to face the day<br />
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:The gates of dawn were sat the piper<br />
:Open slow and magically<br />
:All the people of the people of the city<br />
:Woke and stretched and blinked to see<br />
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:Flowers growing from the earth<br />
:Blooming by a granite quay<br />
:From years of hardship, sweat, and tears<br />
:Where industry lived that went away<br />
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:Gardens from the world's far corners<br />
:Waterfalls, broad lakes, and trees<br />
:Chinese temples, Roman columns,<br />
:Wonders from across the seas<br />
:Sculptures, walkways, lawns, and arbors<br />
:Where a soul could dream the hours<br />
:Amid the sight and scent and feel<br />
:Of strange exotic swaying flowers<br />
:Carnivals and music playing,<br />
:Dancing, singing, there again<br />
:Comes a band of happy children<br />
:Waving from a little train<br />
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:From up (missing)'s pool<br />
:Down to the Dingle<br />
:Enchantment by the Mersey shore<br />
:Our International Garden Festival Liverpool 1984<br />
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:Let the men of other nations<br />
:Witness on this summer morn<br />
:Our city rising like a phoenix<br />
:From its ashes newly born<br />
:God let it be the start of something<br />
:Give us if you only would<br />
:The will to build it<br />
:And to keep it<br />
:Prospering, enduring, good<br />
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:Keep the miracle through the seasons<br />
:Flowering like the endless tide<br />
:From the gates of Herculaneum<br />
:All along the riverside<br />
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===Trivia===<br />
*"Redundant" was a term used in Britain to describe being forcibly made unemployed - a person without a job because there is no more work at their employer.<br />
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