MOVING words penned by a Westmorland man will be sung during tomorrow's funeral service for Baroness Thatcher.

The lines, which inspired one of her chosen hymns, I Vow To Thee My Country, were composed by the diploamat Cecil Spring-Rice, whose family home was Old Church, a house on the shore of Ullswater.

Although said to have been written while Mr Spring-Rice was serving at the British Embassy in Stockholm, Cumbrian’s today believe it must have been inspired by his love of the Ullswater landscape where he grew up. Gustav Holst set the poem to his Jupiter movement from The Planets suite in 1921.

Mike Robinson, of the Blackshaw Hotels, which owns Old Church, said: “It seems very fitting that this uplifting tribute to Baroness Thatcher was inspired by the beautfiul scenery around Ullswater.”