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Hvordan opfatter englang sig selv I denne sang: - Et land der ikke kan besejres. - Et mægtigt land der er over andre lande. - De vil ikke underkaste af andre lande - De dominere havet - Et guddommeligt land opsteget af havet - De er velsignet, og gud er på deres side. - Det er til fordel for alle at England bliver større.
Hvilke ism’er er der i denne sang: - Nationalisme, egoisme(chauvinisme), imperialisme, Eurocentrisme (tanken om at Europa er overlegen)
Et større England: Sir Charles Dilke.

Rule Britannia Poem by James Thompson (1700-1748). Put into music and slightly revised by Thomas Augustin Arne, 1740 When Britain first, at heaven’s command,
Arose from out the azure main,
Arose, arose, arose from out the azure main.
This was the charter, the charter of the land,
And guardian angels sang the strain.

Rule Britannia!
Britannia rule the waves.
Britons never, never, never shall be slaves.

The nations not so blest as thee,
Must in their turn to tyrants fall,
Must in their turn, must in their turn,
To tyrants fall,
While thou shall flourish,
Shall flourish great and free,
The dread and envy of them all.

Chorus.

Still more majestic shalt thou rise,
More dreadful from each foreign stroke.
More dreadful, more dreadful
From each foreign stroke.
As the loud blast that tears the skies,
Serves but to root thy native oak.

Chorus.

Thee haughty tyrants ne’er shall tame,
All their attempts to bend thee down,
All their attempts, all their attempts
To bend thee down,
Will but arouse thy generous flame.
But work their woe and thy renown.

Chorus.

To thee belongs the rural reign,
Thy cities shall with commerce shine,
Thy cities shall, thy cities shall
With commerce shine.
All thine shall be the subject main,
And every shore it circles thine.

Chorus.

The muses still, with freedom found,
Shall to thy happy coast repair,
Shall to thy happy coast,
Thy happy coasts repair,
Best isle of beauty,
With matchless beauty crowned,
And manly hearts to guard the fair.

Chorus.