England, arise! The long, long night is over

England, arise! The long, long night is over. Edward Carpenter* (1844-1929). Written in 1886 as a ‘marching song’ for the newly founded Sheffield Socialist Society when Carpenter was living between Sheffield and Chesterfield. It was published as England Arise: a Socialist Marching Song, and then in Carpenter’s Chants of Labour. A song book of the people with music (1888). It had five stanzas. It was included in The Fellowship Hymn Book (1909 and 1933 editions), and in the Primitive Methodist Hymnal Supplement (1912) in four stanzas, omitting the original stanza 4. It was shortened in SofP and SofPE to three stanzas, omitting the original stanzas 2 and 4: 2. By your young children’s eyes so...