...converts in their midst, serenaded them with the missionary hymn "From Greenland's Icy Mountains": From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error 's chain. Can we, whose souls are lighted With wisdom from on high, Can we to men benighted The...

...icy mountains, From India's coral strand; Where Africa's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand: From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain,...call us to deliver Their land from error's chain. 9. Trovatore: // Trovatore (1853), by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901). "Wally" is an attempt to represent...

...icy mountains, From India's coral strand, Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain,...call us to deliver Their land from error's chain. What though the spicy breezes, Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle; Though ev'ry prospect pleases, And only...

...missionary movement were inextricably linked with those of empire: In the words of a triumphalist hymn, "From many an ancient river, from many a palmy plain,...call us to deliver their land from error's chain." Between the world wars, a call had gone out to "evangelize the world in one generation," and it set...

...icy mountains, From India's coral strand, Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand, From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver, Their land from error's chain.75 and scenes reworked traditional Orientalist themes of the sort Edward Said found most objectionable.76...

...icy mountains From India's coral strand, Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand; From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain11 There was faint chance of African land being delivered back to the sons and daughters of Afric...