Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Poetry and Drama, Vol. 1: 1913
It is clear that the National Anthem Of to-day' is an impostor. It can claim no particular antiquity. It has been violently distorted from its original intention and meaning. On its first appearance Heaven ignored it; only the force Of habit enables us to put up with it to-day. Away with it! Has England no poets?
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