Wider And Mightier
Sir, —Give me leave to disagree with all the sentimental twaddle that is being written about the words of ‘‘Band of Hope and Glory” (the vocal setting of one of Elgar’s’’ Marches of Pomp and Circumstance’’), originally sung before royalty by the late Dame Clara Butt. I see no reason to quarrel with the line, “Wider still and wider.” Why should not the British Empire, of whieh we are all so proud, expand still further? We British are the finest colonizers the world has ever known; and, with all respect to other nations, that world as a whole has been the better for the extension of her beneficent rule —yes. even India. Had there not been the “Wider still and wider” spirit in the past, where would England be today. Why should we be meek and puling over the words of this song? It is either forward or backward —there is no national stand-still—and I, for one hope and pray that Britain’s’ bounds will ever be set wider and wider, to the everlasting glory of the Lord. —I am, etc.. UNION JACK. Wellington, August 21.
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Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 278, 23 August 1945, Page 6
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188Wider And Mightier Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 278, 23 August 1945, Page 6
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