Land of Hope and Glory
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Land of Hope and Glory, Mother of the Free, How shall we extol thee, who are born of thee? Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set; God, who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet, God, who ma
A. C. Benson, lyricist
Edward Elgar, composer
Land of Hope and Glory by Elgar song cover 1902
"And did those feet in ancient time" is a poem by William Blake from the preface to his epic Milton: A Poem in Two Books, one of a collection of writings known as the Prophetic Books. The date of 1804
Land of Hope and Glory
…Land of Hope and Glory" was the England team's victory anthem at the Commonwealth Games until 2010, when the public rejected it in a poll in favour of "Jerusalem". England currently has no agreed national anthem. However, there have been calls for this to be changed, with a 2006 survey conducted by the BBC…
The preface to Milton, as it appeared in Blake's own illuminated version
The composer, c. 1916
William Blake
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