Hail our King, Hail!
Hail our King, Hail! was a royal anthem in the Kingdom of Bavaria and the Kingdom of Greece . The song, the text of which has varied over the decades and which has never been formally declared a national anthem, was one of the numerous German royal and state anthems based on the melody of the British royal anthem , which often began with the same line of text. From 1862 onwards Heil our König, Heil in Bayern, was superseded by the Bavarian anthem and in Greece by the hymn to freedom .
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Hail our King, Hail!
Long life be his part,
God keep him!
Just and pious and gentle,
If he is your image,
If he is your image,
God, give him happiness!
The
king's throne is feast, the
truth his crown,
and justice his sword;
Filled with fatherly love,
he rules big and mild,
he rules big and mild,
hail to him! Salvation!
O holy flame, glow,
glow and never go out for the
fatherland!
Then we all stand
full of strength for a man,
full of strength for a man, for the
fatherland.
Be here, noble king, for a
long time the ornament of the people, the
pride of mankind!
The high fame is yours, that of
your lust to be, that of
your lust to be.
Hail, ruler, to you!
Source: Otto Boehm, p. 38.