POMP & CIRCUMSTANCE

This morning 25th August, the press reveal that we are to be robbed of Land of Hope & Glory at the last night of the BBC proms! I could cry. I love the proms and only wish I had attended a live concert. Its bad enough to have to watch without a live audience, part of the entertainment…

How can they do this. Its a British institution? The number of times I have stood on a chair or stool, or even our bar, waving my Union Jack and sung at the top of my voice to this wonderful tune by Edward Elgar….& Lyrics by Arthur Benson. Next they will ban me from singing Jerusalem!

My thoughts only.

Land of hope and glory, mother of the free
How shall we extol thee, who are born of thee?
Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set
God, who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet
God, who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet