Land of Hope and Glory

Land of Hope and Glory, also known as Pomp And Circumstance, is an English patriotic song. It is particularly noted for being played on the occasion of the Last Night of the Proms amidst much flag-waving.

Related Topics:
English - Last Night of the Proms

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The song is also used as the anthem of England at the Commonwealth Games; England, as part of the United Kingdom, normally has as its anthem "God Save the Queen" (or King), although the United Kingdom has no consititutionally specified anthem.

Related Topics:
Anthem - Commonwealth Games - United Kingdom - God Save the Queen

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The music to which the words below are set is the trio theme from Sir Edward Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1. Words were designed for the melody on the suggestion of King Edward VII who told Elgar he thought the melody would make a great song. When Elgar was requested to write a work for the King's coronation, he worked the suggestion into his Coronation Ode, for which he asked well-known poet and essayist A C Benson to write the words. The seventh and last section of the Ode uses the march's melody.

Related Topics:
Sir Edward Elgar - Pomp and Circumstance March - Edward VII - Coronation Ode - A C Benson

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Due to the King's illness, the coronation was postponed. Elgar created a separate song, which was first performed by Clara Butt in June, 1902. In fact, only the first of the seven stanzas of the Ode's final section was re-used, as the first four lines of the second stanza below. This stanza, (which accompanies the trio section of the March) is the part which is sung today, the first and third having faded into obsolescence.

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Clara Butt - 1902 - Stanza

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:Dear Land of Hope, thy hope is crowned.

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:God make thee mightier yet!

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:On Sov'reign brows, beloved, renowned,

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:Once more thy crown is set.

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:Thine equal laws, by Freedom gained,

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:Have ruled thee well and long;

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:By Freedom gained, by Truth maintained,

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:Thine Empire shall be strong.

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:Land of Hope and Glory,

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:Mother of the Free,

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:How shall we extol thee,

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:Who are born of thee?

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:Wider still and wider

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:Shall thy bounds be set;

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:God, who made thee mighty,

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:Make thee mightier yet

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:God, who made thee mighty,

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:Make thee mightier yet.

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:Thy fame is ancient as the days,

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:As Ocean large and wide

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:A pride that dares, and heeds not praise,

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:A stern and silent pride

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:Not that false joy that dreams content

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:With what our sires have won;

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:The blood a hero sire hath spent

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:Still nerves a hero son.

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