Rule, Britannia! [Indonesian translation]
Rule, Britannia! [Indonesian translation]
When Britain first, at Heav’n’s command,
Arose from out the azure main,
This was the charter of the land,
And guardian angels sang this strain:
|:Rule, Britannia! Britannia rule the waves;
Britons never will be slaves.:|
The nations not so blest as thee,
Must in their turns to tyrants fall;
While thou shalt flourish great and free,
The dread and envy of them all.
|:Chorus:|
Still more majestic shalt thou rise,
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
Will but arouse thy generous flame,
To work their woe, and thy renown.
|:Chorus:|
To thee belongs the rural reign,
Thy cities shall with commerce shine;
All thine, shall be the subject main,
And ev’ry shore it circles thine.
|:Chorus:|
The Muses, still with freedom found,
Shall to thy happy coast repair;
Blest Isle! With matchless beauty crown’d,
And manly hearts to guard the fair.
|:Chorus:|
- Artist:English Folk
- Album:British patriotic song (1740)