‘When Britain first, at Heav’n’s command’

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‘When Britain first, at Heav’n’s command’

Poet(s)

Thomson, James (1700-1748)

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DVPP Project Team

Source

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 5:25, 16, April 1819.

First line

When Britain first, at Heav’n’s command

Authorship

Unsigned

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Linked as a series in non-consecutive issues

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Notes and attribution research

Included in a series of three songs in unsigned parallel translation into Latin under the title Horæ Cantabrigienses. No III (16) (KAF). Poet attribution: The Works of James Thomson, vol. 3, A. Millar, 1766, pp. 253-5. The translator into Latin is Francis Wrangham (Strout 51) (AC).

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Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 7732

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‘When Britain first, at Heav’n’s command’