Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, GOD SAVE THE KING, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER


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First Line: God save our gracious king
Last Line: God save the king!
Subject(s): Patriotism


God save our gracious King,
Nation and State and King,
God save the King!
Grant him the Peace divine,
But if his Wars be Thine
Flash on our fighting line
Victory's Wing!

Thou in his suppliant hands
Hast placed such Mighty Lands:
Save thou our King!
As once from golden Skies
Rebels with flaming eyes,
So the King's Enemies
Doom Thou and fling!

Mountains that break the night
Holds He by eagle right
Stretching far Wing!
Dawn lands for Youth to reap,
Dim lands where Empires sleep,
His! And the Lion Deep
Roars for the King.

But most these few dear miles
Of sweetly-meadowed Isles, --
England all Spring;
Scotland that by the marge
Where the blank North doth charge
Hears Thy voice loud and large,
Save, and their King!

Grace on the golden Dales
Of Thine old Christian Wales
Shower till they sing,
Till Erin's Island lawn
Echoes the dulcet-drawn
Song with a cry of Dawn --
God save the King!





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