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To: churchillbuff
ANTHEM TUNE: JERUSALEM SUNG BY THE CATHEDRAL CHOIR

Is this the same song that is being sung at the end of "Chariots of Fire"? If so, it's one of my favorites!

I'm going to have to tape this. If I start watching it, I'll be bawling and I have to go somewhere early tomorrow afternoon!

92 posted on 06/10/2004 11:36:45 PM PDT by SuziQ (Bush in 2004/Because we MUST!!)
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To: SuziQ
Is this the same song that is being sung at the end of "Chariots of Fire"? If so, it's one of my favorites!

I don't think so. The one you are thinking of is a setting of William Blake's poem:

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?

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And did the Countenance Divine

Shine forth upon our clouded hills?

And was Jerusalem builded here

Among these dark Satanic mills?

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Bring me my bow of burning gold:

Bring me my arrows of desire:

Bring me my spear: O clouds unfold!

Bring me my chariot of fire.

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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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132 posted on 06/11/2004 5:43:04 AM PDT by Taliesan (fiction police)
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