# A Century’s Penultimate

- Music: Walter Parratt (died 1924)
- Words: Arthur Coleridge James
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6550942

## 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!  

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).