<P> Land of Hope and Glory, Mother of the Free, How shall we extol thee, who are born of thee? Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set; God, who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet, God, who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet . </P> <P> "Land of Hope and Glory" is a British patriotic song, with music by Edward Elgar and lyrics by A.C. Benson, written in 1902 . </P> <P> The music to which the words of the refrain "Land of Hope and Glory, &c" below are set is the "trio" theme from Edward Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 . The words were fitted to the melody on the suggestion of King Edward VII who told Elgar he thought the melody would make a great song . When Elgar was requested to write a work for the King's coronation, he worked the suggestion into his Coronation Ode, for which he asked the poet and essayist A.C. Benson to write the words . The last section of the Ode uses the march's melody . </P>

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