 | Samuel Lover, Charles Mackay, Thomas Miller - Patriotic poetry, English - 1861 - 120 pages
...March to drum or bugle-call ! March together, one and all ! THERE'S A LAND, A DEAR LAND. t. rilHERE'S a land, a dear land, where the rights of '*' the free,...nightingales sing, And the honest poor man is as good as the king. Showery ! Flowery ! Tearful! Cheerful! England, wave-guarded, and green to the shore ! West... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth Townsend - 1876 - 336 pages
...sit me down and cry. And it's O in my heart I wish he may not die. ENGLAND! DEAR ENGLAND! THERE'S a land, a dear land, where the rights of the free, Though...primroses bloom, and the nightingales sing, And the true honest man is as good as a king ! Showery, flowery ! Tearful, cheerful ! England wave-guarded... | |
 | Passages, John Allen Giles - English poetry - 1881 - 744 pages
...be lord, Though we may thank him for the plough, We'll not forget the sword!" 2. ENGLAND. There's a land, a dear land, where the rights of the free Though...with her and peace evermore. There's a land, a dear laud, where our vigour of souJ Is fed by the tempests that blow from the pole ; Where a slave cannot... | |
 | Thomas Bowick - 1883 - 242 pages
...NATIONAL SONGS. 212 England ! dear England ! ff] HERE'S a land, a dear land, where the rights JJJ" of the free, Though firm as the earth, are as wide...primroses bloom, and the nightingales sing, And the true honest man is as good as a king ! • Show'ry, flow'ry, Tearful, cheerful ! England ! wave-guarded... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1900 - 612 pages
...represented by his worst song, 'Let me like a soldier fall,' and Mackay by his best : — ' There's a land, a dear land, where the rights of the free, Though...sing, And the honest poor man is as good as a king.' But when from these we passed on to the songs of our own day, the decadence was wofully apparent. The... | |
 | Frederick LANGBRIDGE - 1911 - 510 pages
...Arthur Hugh Clough, "Poems". CXXXVII THERE'S A LAND, A DEAR LAND (From " Songs for Music ") There's a land, a dear land, where the rights of the free, Though...the honest poor man is as good as a king. Showery I Flowery ! England, wave-guarded and green to the shore ! West land I Best land ! Thy land I My land... | |
 | Jeffrey Richards - History - 2001 - 552 pages
...Mozart's Non mi dir from Don Giovanni. Clara Butt sang Frances Allitsen's There's a Land (There's a land, a dear land, where the rights of the free/ Though firm as the earth, are as wide as the sea') with an additional verse by Agnes M. Sibly: There's a Queen, a dear Queen, whom no Briton forgets,... | |
 | English literature - 1900 - 624 pages
...represented by his worst song, ' Let me like a soldier fall,' and Mack ay by his best: — ' There's a land, a dear land, where the rights of the free, Though...sing, And the honest poor man is as good as a king.' But when from these we passed on to the songs of our own day, the decadence was wofully apparent. The... | |
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There's a land, a dear land, where the rights of the free Though firm as the earth, are as wide as the sea ; Where the primroses bloom and the nightingales sing, And the honest poor man is as good as a king. 