# The River

- Music: Edward Elgar (died 1934)
- Words: Pietro d'Alba \[likely a joke name\]
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6233545

## The words

River, mother of fighting men,  
(Rustula!) Sternest barrier of our land,  
(Rustula!) From thy bosom we drew life:  
Ancient, honoured, mighty, grand!  
Rustula!  
Oh! what worship had been thine,  
(Rustula!) Hadst thou held the foemen,  
drowned; (Rustula!) Flood, more precious far  
than wine, Victress, saviour, worldrenowned!  
Rustula!  
Rustula! Like a girl before her lover,  
(Rustula!) How thou falterdst, ‒ like a  
slave; ‒ (Rustula!) Sank and fainted,  
low and lower, When thy mission was to save.  
Coward, traitress, shameless! Rustula!  
On thy narrowed, niggard strand,  
(Rustula!) Des- pairing, ‒ now the tyrant's  
hand (Rustula!) Grips the last remnant of our  
land, Wounded and alone I stand,  
Tricked, derided, impotent!  
Rustula!  
Rustula!  

Songs to sing here are made from public-domain scores: the OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0), the Mutopia Project (each score's licence as Mutopia states it) and the scores in Japanese Wikipedia's articles (CC BY-SA 4.0, by each article's contributors); dates and first publications as IMSLP, the LiederNet Archive, Mutopia and Wikidata state them. Karaoke videos play in YouTube's player; live channels from the iptv-org database on their own pages; stations from Radio Browser. The piano is the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0).