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Plaques animées

[Le Maître du Monde sur le globe terrestre]

Titre	[Le Maître du Monde sur le globe terrestre]
	d'après James Thomson, Rule Britannia !, 1740 [poesie]
Fabricant	Non déterminé
Époque	Seconde moitié du XIXème siècle
Lieu de fabrication	[Angleterre]
Description technique	Plaque animée à cache par double verres coulissants, motif en série rehaussé de couleurs, plaque rectangulaire (mécanisme : deux verres coulissants, type de mouvement : horizontal)
Dimensions	L. 180 mm l. 103 mm
Cote	PLM-00596-055 (Coll. Cinémathèque française)

Rule Britannia ! - Poésie: When Britain first, at Heaven's command
Arose from out the azure main;
This was the charter of the land,
And guardian angels sang this strain:

"Rule, Britannia! rule the waves:
Britons never will be slaves."

The nations, not so blest as thee,
Must, in their turns, to tyrants fall;
While thou shalt flourish great and free,
The dread and envy of them all.

"Rule, Britannia! rule the waves:
"Britons never will be slaves."

Still more majestic shalt thou rise,
More dreadful, from each foreign stroke;
As the loud blast that tears the skies,
Serves but to root thy native oak.

"Rule, Britannia! rule the waves:
"Britons never will be slaves."

Thee haughty tyrants ne'er shall tame:
All their attempts to bend thee down,
Will but arouse thy generous flame;
But work their woe, and thy renown.

"Rule, Britannia! rule the waves:
"Britons never will be slaves."

To thee belongs the rural reign;
Thy cities shall with commerce shine:
All thine shall be the subject main,
And every shore it circles thine.

"Rule, Britannia! rule the waves:
"Britons never will be slaves."

The Muses, still with freedom found,
Shall to thy happy coast repair;
Blest Isle! With matchless beauty crown'd,
And manly hearts to guard the fair.

"Rule, Britannia! rule the waves:
"Britons never will be slaves."

James Thomson (1700-1748), Rule Britannia !, 1740.