Well of course I bloody am !
I don't usually do these things - I must be bored witless this evening but then, of course, I scored brilliantly at both of them, so I'm just a boastful, erudite, English ladeeeee.
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Look upon those (something) hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here,
Among those (these?) dark Satanic mills?
Bring me my bow of burning gold.
Bring me my arrows of desire.
Bring me my spear. Oh, clouds unfold.
Bring me my chariot of fire.
I will not cease from endless (?) strife,
Nor will my sword sleep in my hand,
(All together now, fortissimo viva voce:)
'Til we have built Jerusalem
In England's green & pleasant land.
Not bad for a Yank, huh? I even know who wrote , not Blake's words, which are also, by the way, cracking good, but the tune: Sir Hubert Parry. He wrote it in, I believe, 1916, for a Votes for Women rally (in the midst of WWI, no less!). It was orchestrated, I believe, by Sir Edward Elgar. Parry was not only a composer, but a music theorist, writing a book around the turn of the 20th c., Music & Evolution, and I've sung ( ... )
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