Steve Schwartz:

>The tune as hymn (with the words "I Vow to Thee, My Country") first
>shows up as "Thaxted," in Vaughan Williams's Songs of Praise (1925).
>In Kennedy's Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams, the author strongly implies
>that VW adapted it from The Planets.

It was also reincarnated a few years ago as "World in Union", the theme
tune of the Rugby Union World Cup.  New Zealand have produced several good
rugby players (to say the least), and one rather distinguished soprano.
She sang it.

Ian Crisp
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