“GRATEFUL READER” writes:

I just noticed this in a child’s music book.

Labelled “Traditional Melody,” the following words are presented to young piano students in the 2013 edition of Faber and Faber’s piano lesson series. The text notes that the 250-year-old tune has been set to God Save the Queen; was the national anthem of Denmark, Prussia, and Lichtenstein; and became known in the United States as My Country ‘Tis of Thee. Here is another version set to the grand old melody:

This is my planet Earth.
This is my home of birth,
circling the Sun.
Oceans roll,
mountains grand,
deserts bloom,
forests stand,
one starry sky for
ev ‘ry land,
Bless our planet
Earth.

I wonder who will be doing the blessing?

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