Song of the Celts is a patriotic song sung by several groups, notably the Wolfe Tones. Since the lyrics of the song discuss unity amongst Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Manx, Breton and Cornish ethnic groups, it may be regarded as an unofficial anthem of the Celtic people. Some sources [1] list the song as "traditional", however a version of the song has been attributed to A. P. Graves by author Miranda Seymour in her biography of his son, poet Robert Graves. [2]
There's a blossom that blows
That scoffs at the snows
And it faces root fast
The rage of the blast
And it sweetens the sod
No slave ever trod
Since mountains upreared their altar to
God
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The flower of the free, the heather, the heather
The
Bretons and the
Scots and
Irish together
The
Manx and the
Welsh and
Cornish forever
Six nations are we
Proud,
Celtic and free
There's a blossom that's rare
As the life's blood we share
And for liberty's cause
Against alien laws
With
Lochiel and
O'Neill
And
Llewellyn drew steel
For
Alba's and
Erin's and
Cambria's weal
CHORUS
Let the
Saxon and
Dane
Bear the rule o'er the plain
On the hem of God's robe
Is their
scepter and
globe
And the lord of all light
Revealed in his height
For
Heaven and
Earth rose up in his sight
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