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Which Is Which

John Byrom 1692 (Manchester) – 1763 (Manchester)

"God bless the King! God bless the faith's defender!
God bless, no harm in blessing, the Pretender.
But who pretender is, and who is king,
God bless us all, that's quite another thing."
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Scheme AABB
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 182
Words 34
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
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John Byrom

John Byrom or John Byrom of Kersal or John Byrom of Manchester was an English poet the inventor of a revolutionary system of shorthand and later a significant landowner He is most remembered as the writer of the lyrics of Anglican hymn Christians Awake salute the happy morn which was supposedly a Christmas gift for his daughter more…

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