Songs and Ballads for The People By the Rev. John M. Neale |
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I. The Church of England.
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The good old Church of England!With Her Priests through all the land,
And Her twenty thousand churches,
How nobly does She stand!
Dissenters are like mushrooms,
That flourish but a day;
Twelve hundred years, through smiles and tears,
She hath lasted on alway!
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The brave old Church of England!She hath conquer'd many a foe;
She had Martyrs to Her children
A thousand years ago;
She hath princes more than I can tell,
Who by Her side have stood;
Like King Charles the Blessed Martyr,
And old King George the Good!
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The true old Church of England!She alone hath pow'r to teach:
'Tis presumption in Dissenters
When they pretend to preach:
They might take away Her churches,
They might take Her lands away;
But She would be the true Church,
And base intruders they.
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God bless the Church of England!The poor man's Church is She;
We were nourish'd at Her bosom,
We were fondled at Her knee.
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The good, the true, the brave!
She baptis'd us in our cradle;
She shall bear us to our grave.
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