Nothing New Under the Sun

When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre, He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea;

An' what he thought 'e might require,'E went an' took -- the same as me!

The market-girls an' fishermen, The shepherds an' the sailors, too,

They 'eard old songs turn up again, But kep' it quiet -- same as you!

They knew 'e stole; 'e knew they knowed. They didn't tell, nor make a fuss,

But winked at 'Omer down the road, An' 'e winked back -- the same as us!

~From Barrack-Room Ballads by Rudyard Kipling~

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be;

and that which is done, is that which shall be done:

and there is no new thing under the sun.

~Ecclesiastes 1:9~