1740 in poetry
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—first stanza of James Thomson's "Rule, Britannia", written for the masque Alfred
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- When Britain first, at Heaven's command
- Arose from out the azure main;
- This was the charter of the land,
- And guardian angels sang this strain:
- "Rule, Britannia! rule the waves:
- "Britons never will be slaves."
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