Author: E.D.T.
Title: Song. Tune - Rule Britannia.
Description: Egham and Chertsey: Wettons, printers, c. 1800. Slip song, 185 x 115 mm. with additional manuscript stanza at the foot to be inserted between the second and third printed verses. One of many patriotic songs of the period when an invasion by Napoleon was thought to be imminent. They frequently used the music of Rule Britannia. "Oh let but once the trumpets sound A dreadful knell to Albion's foes They never shall pollute the ground Where one's great ancestors repose."

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