New national anthem
(N.Z Press Association) SALISBURY. Ten vears after seizing independence from Britain. Rhodesia at last has a national anthem. The music was chosen last year — 16 bars from Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, “Ode to Joy,” and the words have been provided by Mrs Mary Bloom, a compulsive competition contestant whose most recent victory was first prize for naming a new cocktail bar in her home town of Gwelo. Her anthem, for which she wins a prize worth almost $3OO, begins: Rise, o voices of Rhodesia, God, may we thy bounty share. Give us strength to face all danger And, where challenge is, to dare.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33974, 15 October 1975, Page 15
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105New national anthem Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33974, 15 October 1975, Page 15
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