A small point of interest: The author takes issue with a line in the song/poem "I vow to thee my country". The line is "the love that asks no questions". Firs

A small point of interest: The author takes issue with a line in the song/poem "I vow to thee my country". The line is "the love that asks no questions". Firstly, I confess to this being one of my favourite - if not my favourite - poems. And in that I must confess to have a different take on it; what the lyrics mean to me if you will. I take a non-religious, but not strictly incompatible, reading. One where "another country" is an ideal to strive for. I read the "the love that asks no questions" to be the unconditional love of a person for their country, and not an unconditional acceptance of their governement or a surrendering of will. Whether this is the original intention I do not know or really care. It is in that line that these lyrics give me great strength. In a career where I can easily emigrate, having few living ties, I could very easily blame the country for all that I see as wrong and leave it. But that of course doesn't help anyone but me - and likely only myself in the short term. My love for my country shouldn't be strictly conditional on the state those I disagree with have put it in. I have to recognise I am of my country. I have to recognise that it is my responsibility.