<P> "I Vow to Thee, My Country" is a British patriotic hymn, created in 1921, when a poem by Sir Cecil Spring Rice was set to music by Gustav Holst . </P> <P> The origin of the hymn's text is a poem by diplomat Sir Cecil Spring Rice, which he wrote in 1908 or 1912, entitled Urbs Dei ("The City of God") or The Two Fatherlands . The poem described how a Christian owes his loyalties to both his homeland and the heavenly kingdom . </P>

Who composed i vow to thee my country