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" Still more majestic shalt thou rise, More dreadful from each foreign stroke; As the loud blast that tears the skies Serves but to root thy native oak. "
The Works of Mr. James Thomson: With His Last Corrections and Improvements ... - Page 130
by James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1802
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A New Library of Poetry and Song, Volume 2

William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 pages
...; Whilst thou shall flourish great and free, The dread and envy of them all. Rule, Britannia ! etc. Still more majestic shalt thou rise, More dreadful from each foreign stroke ; As the loud blasts that tear the skies Serve but to root thy native oak. Rule, Britannia ! etc. •*-•• i....
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The Poetical Works of James Thomson, Volumes 1-2

James Thomson - 1878 - 754 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,...the loud blast that tears the skies Serves but to root thy native oak. ' Rule,' &c. Thee haughty tyrants ne'er shall tame; All their attempts to bend...
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The Book of Scottish Poems: Ancient and Modern

John Ross - 1878 - 786 pages
...tyrants fall, Whilst thou shalt flourish great and free, The dread and envy of them all. Rule Britannia, &c. -Still more majestic shalt thou rise, More dreadful...the loud blast that tears the skies, Serves but to root thy native oak. Rule Britannia, &c. Thee haughty tyrants ne'er shall tame ; All their attempts...
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The Book of Scottish Poems: Ancient and Modern

John Ross - 1878 - 816 pages
...flourish great and free, The dread and envy of them all. Rule Britannia, &c. Still more majestic shall thou rise, More dreadful from each foreign stroke; As the loud blast thai tears the skies, Serves but to root thy native oak. Rule Britannia, &c. Thee haughty tyrants ne'er...
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The poetical works of James Thomson, ed. with a critical mem. by W.M. Rossetti

James Thomson - 1880 - 548 pages
...slaves." The nations, not so blessed as thee, Must, in their turns, to tyrants fall ; While thou shalt flourish great and free, The dread and envy of them...the loud blast that tears the skies Serves but to root thy native oak. " Rule," &c. Thee haughty tyrants ne'er shall tame ; All their attempts to bend...
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Gems of national poetry. Compiled and ed. by mrs. Valentine

Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...slaves ! " The nations not so blessed as thee Must, in their turns, to tyrants fall, While thou shalt- flourish great and free, The dread and envy of them...dreadful from each foreign stroke ; As the loud blast thal tears the skies Serves but to rool thy native oak. "Rule,"&c. Thee haughty lyrants ne'er shall...
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The Excelsior poetry book for the young, selected and ed. by Vita

Excelsior poetry book - 1880 - 234 pages
...fall ; Whilst thou shall flourish, great and free, The dread and envy of them all. Rule Britannia, &c. Still more" majestic shalt thou rise, More dreadful...the loud blast that tears the skies Serves but to root thy native oak. Rule Britannia, &c. Thee, haughty tyrants ne'er shall tame ; All their attempts...
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The Family Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best ...

William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...Whilst thou shalt flourish, great and free, The dread and envy of them all. Rule, Britannia ! été. oops down, an' thinks пае shame To woo his bonny lassie When the kye comes hame ! When blasts that tear the skies Serve but to root thy native oak. Hale, Britannia ! etc. Thee haughty tyrants...
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English Prose and Verse from Beowulf to Stevenson

Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1915 - 852 pages
...turn to tyrants fall, W7hilc thou shalt flourish great and free, The dread and envy of them all. 10 ion lay, A refuge to the neighb'ring poor And strangers...stores beneath its humble thatch Required a master's ca root thy native oak. Thee haughty tyrants ne'er shall tame; 15 All their attempts to bend thee down...
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The Windsor Magazine, Volume 41

1915 - 886 pages
...While thou shalt flourish preat nnd free, The dreatl nnd envy of them all. Still more majestic slialt thou rise, More dreadful from each foreign stroke,...the loud blast that tears the skies Serves but to root thy native oak. For long a controversy raged over the authorship of " Rule, Britannia ! " which...
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