# A thousand years, by sea and land

- Music: Walter Parratt (died 1924)
- Words: Henry Newbolt, Sir (died 1938)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6688176

## The words

A thousand years, by sea and land,  
a thousand years, a thousand years,  
Our race hath served, our race hath served,  
hath served the island kings.  
But not by Custom’s dull  
command,  
but not by Custom’s dull command,  
but not by Custom’s dull command,  
Today with song, with song, with song Her  
empire rings. today, today with song Her  
empire rings.  
Not all the glories, the glories of Her birth,  
Her armed re - nown and ancient throne Could  
make Her less the child of earth,  
could make Her less the child of earth,  
Or give Her hopes beyond our own,  
hopes beyond our own.  
But stayed on faith more sternly proved,  
but stayed on faith more sternly proved And  
pride than ours more pure and deep,  
and pride than ours more pure and deep,  
She loves the land, she loves the land,  
the land our fathers loved, And keeps,  
and keeps the fame our sons shall keep,  
the fame  
our sons  
shall  
keep.  
A thousand years, by sea and land,  
a thousand years, a thousand years,  
Our race hath served, our race hath served,  
hath served,  
our race hath served the island kings.  
But not by Custom’s dull command,  
but not by Custom’s dull command,  
but not by Custom’s dull command,  
but not by Custom’s dull command,  
Today  
with song, today with song Her empire rings.  
today, today with song Her empire rings.  
Not all the glories of Her birth,  
Her armed re - nown and ancient,  
ancient throne Could make Her less the child of  
earth, could make Her less the child of earth Or  
give Her hopes beyond our own, hopes beyond  
our own. But stayed on faith, stayed,  
but stayed on faith more sternly proved,  
And pride than ours, than ours more pure and  
deep, and pride than ours more pure and deep.  
She loves the land, she loves the land our  
fathers loved, And keeps, and keeps the fame  
our sons shall keep, the fame our sons shall  
keep.  
A thousand years, by sea and land,  
a thousand years, a thousand years,  
Our race hath served, hath served the island  
kings, our race hath served the island kings,  
our race hath served the island kings.  
But not by Custom’s dull command,  
but not by Custom’s dull  
command,  
but not by Custom’s dull command,  
but not by Custom’s dull command,  
Today with song, today with song,  
today with song Her empire rings,  
today today with song Her empire rings.  
Not all the glories, the glories of Her birth,  
Her armed re - nown and ancient throne Could  
make Her less the child  
of earth, could make Her less the child of  
earth, Or give Her hopes beyond our own,  
hopes beyond our own.  
But stayed on faith more sternly proved,  
but stayed on faith more sternly proved,  
And pride than ours more pure and deep,  
more pure and deep, and pride than ours more  
pure and deep, She loves the land,  
she loves the land,  
she loves the land our fathers loved,  
And keeps, and keeps the fame our sons shall  
keep, the fame our sons shall keep.  
A thousand years, by sea and land,  
a thousand years, a thousand years,  
Our race hath served, hath served the island  
kings,  
hath served the island kings. But not by  
Custom’s dull command,  
but not by Custom’s dull command,  
but not by Custom’s dull command,  
Today with song, today with song,  
today with song Her empire rings,  
today, today with song Her empire rings.  
Not all the glories of Her birth,  
Her armed renown and ancient throne Could make  
Her less the child of earth, could make Her less  
the child of earth, Or give Her hopes beyond  
our own, hopes beyond our own.  
But stayed on faith more sternly proved,  
but stayed on faith, on faith more sternly  
proved,  
And pride, and pride than ours more pure and  
deep, She loves the land, she loves the land,  
she loves the land our fathers loved,  
And keeps,  
and keeps the fame our sons shall keep,  
the fame our sons shall keep.  

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).