by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892)
There is no land like England
Language: English
There is no land like England Where’er the light of day be; There are no hearts like English hearts, Such hearts of oak as they be. There is no land like England Where’er the light of day be; There are no men like Englishmen, So tall and bold as they be. And these will strike for England And man and maid be free To foil and spoil the tyrant Beneath the greenwood tree. There is no land like England Where’er the light of day be; There are no wives like English wives, So fair and chaste as they be. There is no land like England Where’er the light of day be; There are no maids like the English maids, So beautiful as they be. And these shall wed with freemen, And all their sons be free, To sing the songs of England Beneath the greenwood tree.
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Authorship:
- by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892), no title, appears in The Foresters, second version, first published 1892 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (1852 - 1924), "There is no land like England", published 1919 [ voice and piano ], in The Motherland Songbook I [sung text not yet checked]
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