It was written in 1880 in French then 1908 someone translated to english. It didn't become our official Anthem until 1980, when it replaced God save the queen.
As far as making it gender neutral? No ducks given because most of that line gets mumbled anyways, "In all thy..garbled..mand.
If you've ever done a Shakespeare play, you'll know they chop them apart, rewrite lines, throw out overtly racist dated dialogue.
For the performance, but they don't rewrite it and print the newly rewritten versions. That's what I was referring to.
As it should be with the anthem, left to personal preference without a need to rewrite the original script.
Agreed!