A Century’s Penultimate
Music: Walter Parratt (1841–1924) · Words: Arthur Coleridge James
Resplendent beams are kindling in the East -
Awake, ye nations to a nobler day.
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The words
Resplendent beams are kindling in the East -
Awake, ye nations to a nobler day.
From port
to port,
from spire
to spire the ray Lights upon commerce freed
and powers re- leased, and powers released
From spire to spire the ray Lights upon
commerce freed and powers re- leased,
on commerce freed and powers released
Ye,
late returned from England’s royal feast,
Pass friend to friend
a- long th’Atlantic breeze,
Join hearts
with hearts
while threads
that knit the seas Flash love and joy of
brotherhood in- creased
Flash love and joy, and joy of brotherhood
increased.
So be this time remembered, remembered in
the close And sunset of our age,
our age which ebbs a- main, ebbs amain.
But thou, Victoria,
may’st thou long sus- tain The burden which
thy People’s love bestows,
The burden of a Reign so richly blest
Of all our Reigns
the longest and the best!
Resplendent beams are kindling in
the East -
Awake, ye nations to a nobler,
nobler day.
From port to port, from spire to spire,
from spire
to spire the ray
Lights upon commerce freed and powers
re- leased, powers released
From port to port, from spire to spire the ray
Lights upon commerce
freed and powers re- leased, on commerce freed
and powers released
Ye,
late returned from England’s royal feast,
Pass friend to friend a- long the Atlantic
breeze,
Join hearts with hearts, join hearts with hearts
while threads
that knit the seas
Flash
love and joy of brotherhood in- creased
Flash love and joy, and joy of brotherhood
increased.
So be this time remembered, remembered in
the close And sunset of our age which ebbs
a- main, ebbs amain. But thou, Victoria,
may’st thou long sus- tain The burden which
thy People’s love bestows,
The burden of a Reign so richly blest
Of all our Reigns
the longest and the best!
Resplendent beams are kindling
in the East -
Awake, ye nations to a nobler,
nobler day.
From port
to port,
from spire to spire, from spire to spire the ray
Lights upon commerce freed and powers
re- leased,
From port to port, from spire to spire
the ray Lights upon commerce freed and powers
re- leased, on commerce freed and powers
released
Ye,
late returned from England’s royal feast,
Pass friend to friend, along
the At- lantic breeze,
Join hearts
with hearts,
join hearts with hearts while threads that knit
the seas Flash love and joy of brotherhood
in- creased
Flash love and joy, and joy of brotherhood
increased.
So be this time remembered in the close And
sunset of our age which ebbs a- main,
ebbs amain. But thou, Victoria,
may’st
thou long
sus- tain
The burden which thy People’s love bestows,
The burden of a Reign so richly blest Of all
our Reigns the longest and the best!
Resplendent beams are kindling in
the East -
Awake, ye nations to a nobler,
nobler day.
From port to port,
from spire
to spire, from spire to spire the ray
Lights upon commerce freed and powers
re- leased, From port to port, from spire to
spire
the ray, the ray
Lights upon commerce freed and powers
re- leased,
on commerce freed and powers released
Ye,
late returned from England’s royal feast,
Pass friend to friend, along the At- lantic
breeze,
Join hearts with hearts,
join hearts
with hearts while threads that knit the seas
Flash
love and joy of brotherhood in- creased Flash
love and joy, and joy of brotherhood
increased.
So be this time remembered, remembered in
the close And sunset of our age,
our age which ebbs a- main, ebbs amain.
But thou, Victoria,
may’st thou long sus- tain The burden which
thy People’s love bestows,
The burden of a Reign so richly blest Of all
our Reigns the longest and the best!
Resplendent beams
kindling
in the East -
Awake, ye nations to a nobler,
to a nobler day.
From port to port, from spire to spire the ray
Lights upon commerce freed and powers
re- leased,
From port to port the ray Lights upon commerce
freed and powers re- leased, on commerce freed
and powers released
Ye,
late returned from England’s royal feast,
Pass friend to friend, along
the At- lantic breeze,
Join hearts with hearts while threads that knit
the seas
Flash love and joy of brotherhood in- creased
Flash love and joy, and joy of brotherhood
increased.
So be this time remembered in the close
And sunset of our age which ebbs a- main,
ebbs amain. But thou, Victoria,
may’st thou long sus- tain The burden which
thy People’s love bestows,
The burden of a Reign so richly blest Of all
our Reigns the longest and the best!
Resplendent beams are kindling in the East -
Awake, ye nations to a nobler day,
a nobler, nobler day. From port to port from
spire to spire,
From port to port, from spire to spire the ray
Lights upon commerce freed and powers
re- leased,
From spire to spire on commerce freed and
powers re- leased, on commerce freed and
powers released
Ye,
late returned from England’s royal feast,
Pass friend to friend, friend
to friend along the At- lantic breeze,
Join hearts with hearts, join hearts with hearts
Join hearts with hearts while threads that knit
the seas
Flash love and joy of brotherhood in- creased
Flash love and joy, and joy of brotherhood
increased.
So be this time remembered, remembered in
the close
And sunset of our age, our age which ebbs
a- main, ebbs amain. But thou, Victoria,
may’st thou long sus- tain The burden which
thy People’s love bestows,
The burden of a Reign so richly blest Of all
our Reigns the longest, longest and the best!
About this song
- Music
- Walter Parratt (1841–1924) (dates as OpenScore states them)
- Words
- Arthur Coleridge James
- Language
- English, as its source states it
- First published
- in or before 1899, as IMSLP states it
- Length
- 4:50
- Parts
- Soprano I, Soprano II, Alto, Tenor, Bass I, Bass II
- Its source files it as
- Choral Songs in Honour of Her Majesty Queen Victoria
- The score
- OpenScore Lieder Corpus; CC0 1.0, as its source states it. OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
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- the United States
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