VI

by Percy Bysshe Shelley · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of A New National Anthem

Lips touched by seraphim

Breathe out the choral hymn

'God save the Queen!'

Sweet as if angels sang,

Loud as that trumpet's clang

Wakening the world's dead gang,—

God save the Queen!

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