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FAMOUS SONGS
pose " God Preserve the Czar/' one of the most impressive of all national anthems. In the United States, also, the tune of " God Save the Queen" is preserved in a quasi-national song or hymn entitled " America."
It is very curious that up to the present nothing has been satisfactorily settled as to who the real individual was who has secured for his anonymity so much fame from posterity. " Up to the time of Charles 1./' says Dr. Charles Mackay, " the national anthem—or loyal hymn —sung in honour of the king either in his presence or at convivial meetings of his sub-jects, was ' Vive le Roy/ an English song with a Norman burden. After the revolution that made Cromwell Protector, the cavaliers, utterly discarding the old song, made themselves a new one,' When the King shall enjoy his own again/ which with its by no means contemptible poetry, and its exceedingly fine music, kept up the hearts of the party in their adversity, and did more for the royal cause than an army,"
After that, the loyal song during the reigns of Charles II. and James II. was the quaint ditty beginning:
" Here's a health, unto his Majesty, With a fal, lal, lal, lal, la ! Confusion to his enemies, With a fal, lal, lal, lal, la I 205 |
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