The tune to the hymn ‘I Vow To Thee My Country’ was taken from which ‘Planet’ by Gustav Holst?
I Vow to Thee, My Country privately for a few years, until it was set to music by Holst, to a tune he adapted from his "Jupiter" to fit the words of the poem. It was performed as a unison song with orchestra in the early 1920s, and it was finally published as a hymn in 1925/6 in the "Songs of Praise" hymnal (no. 188). It was included in later hymnals, including: In 1921, Gustav Holst adapted the music from a section of "Jupiter" from his suite "The Planets" to create a setting for the poem. The music was extended slightly to fit the final two
I Vow to Thee, My Country I Vow to Thee, My Country "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. The origin of the hymn's text is a poem by diplomat Sir Cecil Spring Rice, written in 1908 or 1912, entitled "" ("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. In 1908, Spring Rice was posted to the British Embassy in Stockholm. In 1912, he was appointed as