Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-06-04
BRITISH NA! !!!!ya;,
H HYMN IN HISTORY
,.tion of a Reverslon 10
V' God Save Great George
Our King"
,ycluTED TO THE llmE
....,,ou Would Require very LII
'' n,.ot Music from That Now
Sung Throughout Empire
,,rvrtaL nEsPATcHl

LONDON. SATURDAY
r-uy accession OF new S .a -" rord,
~ directed attention TO me W." 800
:, ,be national anthem "I'on ~"
.,.asrabB altered since they W."
ven 80 80 The same question was JUS
- 49, ,ns late King Edward came
er'' .S,ors hut the anthem was 'e'' as
o'ne ,,,,h the necessary chahse
..nod save the queen" TO zoo sew
10" 49, As has already been men
ne .ns papers, King Edward hao
WV. asr.rted than a suggestion wa'
10 ,hat Great Britain had another
m'''' 60 that the opening WORDS
H ..a very well be changed to nose su"s
o,s Of the earlier Georges hai'ie''
~ save great Gco'ec' our N"s'
,,,.d the must. very nueh pe''er
ID" u,e which contained the ''sra-
'nAD .,d which sounded the reverse OF
,nao.l when broken by ny pheh !" '"'
rendering .,, an att.ra-
,,A ~, consider what the adoption
c, A version meant That ola anu
-, v.ru,on In the original has very
s-.,a.d AlusIon to bad times ana nish
49,, and 4, is Questionable whether
- ,,ve any charm. especially for me
..,ocr.oy and landed classes OF 'res
attain ,ust now. Il began
God save great George our NIUE
Ions live our noble King
80. tha King
~, ,bsn IN. poet whoever he may nave
I'm changes the stanZa In way 'nA'
IL ,,culre very different music from
en-. now surg The lines are
Our LOYALTY shall us befrend'
Shall W. befriend' na
ant why despair the times may memo
Why. why despair, The times may i"'''''
Z, The next stanzs there Is an even more
,o,,,d slnsion to the hard times theh
pi,va!ing:-
Nv pockets low and taxes high
NJ pockets very low, very low
But Why despair. the times may menu
Our loyalty shall us befrieno'
Looking through the history OF the
,,donsl anthem one hnds a lot OF very
curious things. II was customary at one
time TO have the poet laureate OF the gay
o- his equivalent write for insertion IN
the anthem verses to be sung in celeors-
Ton OF passing events. Here Is stansa
which mus. have been inserted about the
year ila5, when Marshal Wade was EN-
ploed to nut down certain risings In
North Britain
May by Thy mighty aid
Victory bring;
May he seditLon hush
And like a torrent rush
RebelriouE soots 60 crush
God save tho King!
Then again on January 1. I7s, the an
them was altered, when the Rev. W. ID.
Ta,tsrsal wrote some special verses 10
celebrate what was called the io%th year
N Britains liberty" the aliusion being. II
may be presumed, 10 tho revolution Of
ie Here are couple Of rr< stsnzAs
ws,ch the reverend rhymster wrote
I<t Dtscord's lsviess train
Know their VIE arts are vain.
Britain is FREE:
Confound their polificks-
Frvstrste their knavtxh tricks,
with equal laws we mix
True liberty.
England's stanch soidievy,
Proof against treachery.
Brsyely unite
Firm IN his oountr3y.s cause.
His sword Zach hero draws.
To guard our King and laws
From factious might.
There Ia an old world hshtine spirit in
hh reference 20 the navy Of the day.
though one wonders with what kind of
'psrr thee BaIne tars may hsve sung the
verses when they thought how theu had
been press ganged" into the ssrVao~ not
When duty called. but very much against
ths'r Wills THIS s the stansa:--
When insults rise 20 vars
oak-hearsed British tars
sonrn to be sfawrs,
Ranged In our wooden wslh.
Ready whom duty calls
To send their cannon balls
oa oceans wavsa
" has ben generally supposed thsf the
a"'oen wSs not altered to God Save the
Saesn' until the late Queen Victoria came
" hs throne. on the contrary 1t ..ty
'hoTs that God Save the Quec AS
sung on April q, 1915. when Quo. .ar-
'0oe visited the city of London. Tls was
Ne' last appearance in public. when shs
W" visiting the national schools. and tbs
cilldren. after singing tn. usuai anthem.
aoued two special stanzAs In which the
queen herself heartily Joined