The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #62924   Message #1019956
Posted By: Steve Parkes
16-Sep-03 - 12:17 PM
Thread Name: Last Night of the Proms
Subject: RE: Last Night of the Proms
Dave, the "dark Satanic mills" were Oxford & Cambridge Universities in Blake's vision of things, so I don't expect there'll be much adverse comment from Up North!

Greg, "Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set/God who made thee mighty make thee mightier yet" sounds a bit imperialistic to me. Doesn't marr my enjoyment of singing it once a year, though. I noticed they did the second verse of God Save the Queen, but not the "confound their politics/Frustrate their knavish tricks" one; shame -- I'm all in favour of that!

Steve