 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...Heaven's command, Arose from out the azure main ; This was the charter of the land, And guardian angels sung this strain : ' ' Rule, Britannia, rule the waves...Britons never will be slaves ! " The nations not so blessed as thee Must, in their turns, to tyrants fall, While thou shalt- flourish great and free, The... | |
 | Joseph Angus - English literature - 1880 - 726 pages
...Heaven's command, Arose from out the azure main ; This was the charter of the land, And guardian angels sung this strain : ' Rule, Britannia, rule the waves ; Britons never will be slaves !' . . . Thee haughty tyrants ne'er shall tame ; All their attempts to bend thee down Will but arouse... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...Heaven's comArose from out the azure main, This was the charter of the land, And guardian angels sang groves, in hollow-whispering gales. Thy Bounty shines...in autumn unconfined, And spreads a common feast fo thec, Must in their turns to tyrants fall ; While thou »halt flourish, great and free, The dread and... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1881 - 1000 pages
...Heaven's command, Arose from out the aznro main, This was the charter of the land, And guardian angels blessed as thee' Must in their turn to tyrants fall ; While thou shalt flourish great and free, The... | |
 | David Munro - 1881 - 160 pages
...out the azure main, This was the charter of the land, And guardian angels sung this strain : " Eule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves." The nations, not so bless'd as thee, Must, in their turns, to tyrants fall; While thou shalt flourish great and free, The... | |
 | John Wien Forney - Statesmen - 1881 - 452 pages
...command, Arose from out the azure main, This was the charter of the land, And guardian angels sang this strain: Rule, Britannia ! rule the waves ! Britons never will be slaves ! " Let us, your sons, by freedom warmed, Your own example keep in view; 'Gainst tyranny be ever armed,... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1882 - 984 pages
...out the azure main, This was the charter of the land, And guardian angels sung this strain : Kule, Britannia, rule the waves ; Britons never will be slaves. The nations, not so blessed as thee, Must, in their turns, to tyrants fall, While tliou shalt flourish great and free,... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 562 pages
...Heaven's command, Arusu from out the azure main ; This was the charter of the land, And guardian angels sung this strain : " Rule, Britannia, rule the waves ; Britons never will be slaves." The nation«, not so blest as theo, Must, in their turns, to tyrants fall : While thou shall flourish great... | |
 | Edwin O. Chapman - American poetry - 1884 - 430 pages
...Heaven's command, Arose from out the azure main ; This was the charter of the land, And guardian angels sung this strain : " Rule, Britannia, rule the waves...Britons never will be slaves ! " The nations not so blessed as thee Must, in their turns, to tyrants fall, While thou shalt flourish great and free, The... | |
 | American poetry - 1886 - 552 pages
...command. Arose from out the azure main. This was the charter of the laud. And guardian angels suug this strain: "Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves." The nations not so blessed as thee Must in their turns to tyrants fall ; While thou shall flourish great and free, The... | |
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WHEN Britain first, at Heaven's command, Arose from out the azure main, This was the charter of the land, And guardian angels sung this strain • " Rule Britannia, rule the waves ; Britons never will be slaves. 
