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Archers Road said:
The questions are rhetorical. The Jerusalem referred to is a metaphorical ideal, an aspiration to build God's Kingdom not in the sky, but here on earth. Here In England.

And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen?
And did the countenance divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here
Among those dark satanic mills?

Bring me my bow of burning gold!
Bring me my arrows of desire!
Bring me my spear: o clouds unfold!
Bring me my chariots of fire!
I will not cease from mental fight;
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand
Till we have built Jerusalem
In England's green and pleasant land.
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It doesn't sound very appropriate for our multicultural/multiethnic society. What else have you got?
 
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Archers Road said:
The questions are rhetorical. The Jerusalem referred to is a metaphorical ideal, an aspiration to build God's Kingdom not in the sky, but here on earth. Here In England.

And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen?
And did the countenance divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here
Among those dark satanic mills?

Bring me my bow of burning gold!
Bring me my arrows of desire!
Bring me my spear: o clouds unfold!
Bring me my chariots of fire!
I will not cease from mental fight;
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand
Till we have built Jerusalem
In England's green and pleasant land.
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Yes I know, but if the answer to the 4th question is YES then the second verse is redundant. The whole metaphor is extremely mixed up.
 
PowerSpurs said:
Yes I know, but if the answer to the 4th question is YES then the second verse is redundant. The whole metaphor is extremely mixed up.
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Not if you place intuition and imagination before logic, and surrender to the current of Blake's visionary power. In other words, it's poetry, not a Haynes Manual.
 
Archers Road said:
The words are by William Blake. A visionary outsider, a rebel and a heretic. Up there with Shakespeare and John Milton, Keats and Shelley, as a true iconoclast, and eccentric genius.
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Where have all the clever people gone hey........ .......all we get now is people who hide in fridges and women who's proudest moment is the fact we got a factory that packs tea from a tea leaf that comes from abroad.....you gotta question the quality of these public schools hey....all they produce is a criminal or imbeciles
 
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Spurlock said:
Would be **** tbh imo

:emoticon-0159-musicGod save our Manchester, Liverpool, Huddersfield, Rochdale…blah blah
Rains a lot in North
Sunnier in South
Quite green here n there
Full of ****s:emoticon-0159-music

cant see it catching on tbh
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Dunno man, what tune you got in mind?


Still prefer William Blake's, but yours is better than the current ****ing dirge...
 
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Spurlock said:
Would be **** tbh imo

:emoticon-0159-musicGod save our Manchester, Liverpool, Huddersfield, Rochdale…blah blah
Rains a lot in North
Sunnier in South
Quite green here n there
Full of ****s:emoticon-0159-music

cant see it catching on tbh
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I already like.it more.than the old one.


"There'll always be an England" manages to capture spirit of England without talking about it raining a. Lot. A few parts of it, like talking about the empire doesn't hold up today... But the rest does. Avoids all the awkward religious references too which shouldn't be in a modern anthem.
 
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aberdude said:
Where have all the clever people gone hey........ .......all we get now is people who hide in fridges and women who's proudest moment is the fact we got a factory that packs tea from a tea leaf that comes from abroad.....you gotta question the quality of these public schools hey....all they produce is a criminal or imbeciles
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No more heroes bruv...

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Spurlock said:
Anyway

who told the trigger happy totem pole chopping sister marrying hillbilly Yank that he has any say in our national anthem?

don’t listen to him
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He just loves the attention of being different.

Typical yank.
 
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