Francis T. Palgrave, ed. (1824–1897). The Golden Treasury. 1875.
James Thomson CXXII. Rule, BritanniaW
Arose from out the azure main,
This was the charter of her land,
And guardian angels sung the strain:
Rule, Britannia! Britannia rules the waves!
Britons never shall be slaves!
Must in their turn to tyrants fall,
Whilst thou shalt flourish great and free
The dread and envy of them all.
More dreadful from each foreign stroke;
As the loud blast that tears the skies
Serves but to root thy native oak.
All their attempts to bend thee down
Will but arouse thy generous flame,
And work their woe and thy renown.
Thy cities shall with commerce shine;
All thine shall be the subject main,
And every shore it circles thine!
Shall to thy happy coast repair;
Blest Isle, with matchless beauty crown’d
And manly hearts to guard the fair:—
Rule, Britannia! Britannia rules the waves!
Britons never shall be slaves!