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ISWC
T9159846818
ISRC
GB-FFM-15-98159
GVL Label Code
27831
Release Year
2015
Key
D
Metre
3/4
Tempo
64BPM
Tempo notes
Medium
Factoid
Parry set William Blake's poem to music in 1916. The work has been closely linked to the women's suffrage movement and has become an alternative National Anthem for Great Britain (along with Land of Hope and Glory). Blake is not suggesting Jesus came to England, but that if he had heaven would briefly have existed in England. The dark satanic mills refer to the industrial revolution.