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“When Britain first, at Heaven's command, 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.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Alfred. Act ii. Sc. 5.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 4defb0aa5ed352abc83b20bc23683f86982234f8612ef71f26aa57bae0453fb5
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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