I Vow to Thee, My Country | |
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Genre | Hymn |
Written | 1921 |
Text | Cecil Spring Rice |
Meter | 13.13.13.13 D |
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"I Vow to Thee, My Country" is a British patriotic hymn, created in 1921 when music by Gustav Holst had a poem by Sir Cecil Spring Rice set to it. The music originated as a wordless melody, which Holst later named "Thaxted", taken from the "Jupiter" movement of Holst's 1917 suite The Planets.