Still be this truth, this saving truth confess'd,
Britain is great, because with freedom blest;
Her prince is great, because her people free,
And power here springs from publick liberty.
Hail mighty monarch of the free and great!
Firm on the basis of a prosp'rous state.
The wealth, the strength of happy millions thine,
United rise, united shall decline.
For time will come, sad period of the brave,
When Britain's humble prince shall rule the slave;
When traffick vile shall stain the guilty throne,
And kings shall buy our ruin and their own.