# The seaboards are her mantle’s hem

- Music: Walter Parratt (died 1924)
- Words: John Davidson
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6683352

## The words

The seaboards are her mantle’s hem;  
The mountains her cuirass secure;  
The Southern Cross, the Cynosure,  
the Cynosure; Her pennant o'er the earth  
unfurled, her pennant o'er the earth unfurled,  
God helping, God helping, none shall lower  
yet, none shall lower lower yet;  
On the four corners of the world Her admirable  
throne is set, Established to endure.  
Most high, most dear, whom all degrees In all  
her workshops, all her marts,  
But in all parts where English speech and  
thought remain, Whatever flag floats on the  
breeze, whatever flag floats on the breeze,  
Her tenderness, her tenderness and wisdom  
reign, Whatever flag floats o'er the breeze,  
Her tenderness and wisdom reign,  
Queen of the cities and the seas,  
Queen of all English, English hearts.  
The seaboards are her mantle’s hem;  
The mountains her cuirass secure;  
The jewels in her diaa– dem, her diadem,  
her diadem. The Southern, Southern Cross,  
the Cynosure, the Cynosure; Her pennant  
o'er the earth unfurled, her pennant o'er the  
earth unfurled, God helping,  
God helping, none shall lower yet;  
God helping, God helping, God helping On the  
four corners of the world Her admirable  
throne is set, her admirable throne is set,  
Established to endure.  
Most high, most dear, whom all degrees In all  
her workshops, all her marts, In all her courts  
revere, not these alone are hers;  
not these alone are hers, are hers;  
But in all parts where English speech and  
thought remain, Whatever flag floats on the  
breeze, whatever flag floats on the breeze,  
Her tenderness and wisdom reign,  
and wisdom reign,  
her tenderness, her tenderness and wisdom  
reign, Her tenderness and wisdom reign,  
Queen of the cities and the seas,  
Queen of the cities and the seas,  
Queen of all English, English hearts.  
The seaboards are her mantle’s hem;  
The mountains her cuirass secure;  
The jewels, the jew– els, the jewels in her  
diadem, the jewels in her dia– dem.  
The Southern Cross, the Cynosure,  
the Cynosure;  
Her pennant,  
her pennant o'er the earth unfurled o'er the  
earth unfurled, God helping, God helping,  
God helping, none shall lower yet;  
God helping, God helping, God helping On the  
four corners of the world Her admirable  
throne is set, her admirable throne is set,  
Established to endure.  
Most high, most dear, whom all degrees In all  
her workshops, all her marts, In all,  
in all her courts, in all her courts re– vere,  
not these alone are hers; But in all part where  
English speech and thought remain,  
remain,  
What– ever flag floats on the breeze,  
on the breeze, the breeze, Her tenderness,  
her tenderness, her tenderness and wisdom  
reign,  
her tenderness, her tenderness and wisdom  
reign, Her tenderness and wisdom reign,  
Queen of the cities and the seas,  
Queen of the cities and the seas,  
Queen of all English, English hearts.  
The seaboards are her mantle’s hem;  
The mountains her cuirass secure;  
The jewels in her diadem, the jewels in her  
diaa– dem. The Southern Cross,  
the Cynosure, the Cynosure; Her pennant,  
her pennant o'er the earth unfurled o'er the  
earth unfurled, God helping, God helping,  
none, none shall lower yet, none shall lower,  
lower yet; On the four corners of the world  
Her admirable throne is set, Established to  
endure.  
Most high, most dear, whom all degrees In all  
her workshops, all her marts, In all her courts  
revere, not these a– lone, not these alone,  
alone are hers; But in all parts where English  
speech and thought remain, remain,  
What– ever flag floats on the breeze,  
on the breeze, the breeze, Her tenderness,  
her tenderness, her tenderness and wisdom  
reign, Whatev– er flag floats o'er the breeze,  
Her tenderness and wisdom reign,  
Queen of the cities and the seas,  
Queen of all English, English hearts.  

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).