I don't recall anyone above [apologies if I missed it] mentioning Stanford's stirring setting of Newbolt's rousing "Drake's Drum". That sort of patriotic triumphalism is, one realises, not·quite·the·thing with the present generation; but sung regularly over the airwaves by bass-baritones of the Peter Dawson type, it was, whatever may be thought from a post-60s perspective, the sort of thing which kept up our national morale in the dark days of early WW2.

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