# The Lost Chord

- Music: Arthur Sullivan (died 1900)
- Words: Adelaide Anne Procter (died 1864)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6205441

## The words

Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and  
ill at ease, And my fingers wander'd idly  
Over the noisy keys; I know not what I was  
playing, Or what I was dreaming then,  
But I struck one chord of music,  
Like the sound of a great Amen, Like the sound  
of a great A- men.  
It flooded the crimson twilight,  
Like the close of an Angel's Psalm,  
And it lay on my fever'd spirit,  
With a touch of infinite calm, It quieted  
pain and sorrow, Like love overcoming  
strife, It seem'd the harmonious echo,  
From our discordant life, It link'd all  
perplexed meanings, Into one perfect peace,  
And trembled away into silence,  
As if it were loth to cease; I have sought,  
but I seek it vainly, That one lost chord  
divine, Which came from the soul of the organ,  
And enter'd into mine.  
It may be that Death's bright Angel,  
Will speak in that chord again; It may be that  
only in Heav'n, I shall hear that grand Amen,  
It may be that Death's bright Angel,  
Will speak in that chord again, It may be that  
only in Heav'n, I shall hear that grand Amen.  

Songs to sing here are made from public-domain scores: the OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0), the Mutopia Project (each score's licence as Mutopia states it) and the scores in Japanese Wikipedia's articles (CC BY-SA 4.0, by each article's contributors); dates and first publications as IMSLP, the LiederNet Archive, Mutopia and Wikidata state them. Karaoke videos play in YouTube's player; live channels from the iptv-org database on their own pages; stations from Radio Browser. The piano is the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0).