Look at the people in this audience all singing and ask yourself if they are all Christians.
I doubt if any one of them knows that the land of which they sing is the permanent home of the Lost Tribe of Ephraim of that the native English among them are actually Israelites!
Composed by Edward Elgar, written in 1901 and with lyrics by A. C. Benson added in 1902.
This singing at the end of the concert is seen by outsiders as jingoistic nationalist rubbish but is historically correct!
I doubt if any one of them knows that the land of which they sing is the permanent home of the Lost Tribe of Ephraim of that the native English among them are actually Israelites!
Composed by Edward Elgar, written in 1901 and with lyrics by A. C. Benson added in 1902.
This singing at the end of the concert is seen by outsiders as jingoistic nationalist rubbish but is historically correct!
