"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.""
— England

January 1, 1970

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James Thomson, "Rule, Britannia", in Alfred, a Masque (1740). Written by Thompson and Mallet. Mallet rearranged the Masque for the stage, and introduced Thompson's Song. See Dr. Dinsdale's edition of Mallet. (1851), p. 292